Background: Genetic disorders predispose individuals to exhibit characteristic behaviours, which in turn elicit particular behaviours from others. In response to the strength of Prader?Willi syndrome (PWS) and weakness of Williams syndrome (WS) in visual-spatial tasks such as jigsaw puzzles, parents' behaviours can be affected by their child's…

This book is designed to provide middle-grade mathematics teachers with ideas for enlivening instruction to help students acquire a sense about numbers. Guided classroom discussions for writing opportunities centered on the theme of problem solving are provided. Following an introduction, chapters include the following: Counterintuitive Problems;…

This issue of "The Goldfinch," an Iowa history magazine for children, focuses on issues relating to housing. Articles address such subjects as homelessness, neighborhood history, architecture, and local folklore. One student activity is the "Building Blocks" game that calls upon students to fill in blanks to complete words from…

Vocabulary development activities to be used with the stories in the Ginn 720 Reading Series Level 9 textbook are offered. The introduction recommends a method of presenting the activities. For each story that appears in the textbook, a vocabulary list and a learning activity are given. At the end of each of five units, a unit vocabulary test is…

Games and puzzles in which a checkerboard can be used to develop mathematical concepts are described. (SD)

A problem-solving exercise based on the principle of cooperative learning and designed for use in the English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) classroom is described and demonstrated. The problem-posing method, which uses students' lives and problems as a focus of discussion in the second language classroom, is outlined. By using carefully selected…

On a triangular grid of equilateral triangles an analytical procedure is presented for solving puzzles that require one to measure out a specified amount of liquid from containers of various volumes. (JP)

This is one in a series of SMSG supplementary and enrichment pamphlets for high school students. This series is designed to make material for the study of topics of special interest to students readily accessible in classroom quantity. Topics covered include the basic rules of sequence arithmetic, elementary strategy, intermediate strategy, and…

Thirty-eight preschool children were subjects in this investigation. They were paired on the basis of similarity of sex and dissimilarity of socioeconomic level. Reward for completion of six puzzles was based on cooperation between the partners and, for another six, on competition between them. The data of this study consisted of (a) the content…

This volume presents a collection of problems designed for use in weekly activities in elementary classes. The activities were designed to assist teachers in encouraging creativity and divergent thinking in mathematics. The problems included were originally published in diverse sources. Each problem is coded to indicate the content area and the…

Textual puzzles may be used in freshman composition or introduction to writing courses to emphasize word order and subject-predicate agreement. These sentence puzzles demonstrate that the English language depends primarily upon word order to convey meaning, and assist students to avoid blending statement and question word order in their sentences…

Worksheets are provided for activities involving associating numbers with letters (as on the telephone dial) to compute values for words. Other activities involve systematic counting of telephone numbers. (SD)

Four articles are presented in this monthly column: dealing effectively with metric conversions; teaching how to round numbers; why a false statement implying a false statement is true--a discovery explanation; and a third-grade puzzle with interesting implications. (MP)

A BASIC program is given for a game that encourages the use of logical reasoning in solving number puzzles. (MP)

Provides four pages of practice problems covering the skills of multiplication, addition, and subtraction. Follows the premise that many arithmetic operations be done in working toward a solution. The sheets could be photocopied as worksheets or handouts. (JM)