Provides examples which suggest the importance of giving children opportunities to create their own arguments and of allowing them the opportunity to verbalize these arguments in clinical interviews. Also indicates that if time is spent interviewing children individually, instruction can be matched to the way they think. (JN)

Applies a career framework to examine how curriculum placement and subject choice affect the pupil's experience of schooling. (JOW)

This issue reviews grade span, or grade configuration. Catherine Paglin and Jennifer Fager's "Grade Configuration: Who Goes Where?" provides an overview of issues and concerns related to grade spans and supplies profiles of eight Northwest schools with varying grade spans. David F. Wihry, Theodore Coladarci, and Curtis Meadow's…

This paper focuses on lexical ambiguity. With respect to mathematics classrooms, polysemy has been mentioned as one of the principal concerns, namely certain words having different but related meanings. It may also happen when different meanings of a word are presumed in everyday context and in another environment, in this case in mathematics…

This textbook is a course in elementary arithmetic. It stresses mental as well as written exercises. Addition and subtraction are first presented together, and later multiplication and division.

Using various aspects of mathematical structure as unifying concepts is stressed. Specific examples are given based on the concept of equivalent fractions and on the addition property of equality. (LS)

Twelve fourth-grade classes in two schools were taught division using either the subtractive approach to the Greenwood algorithm or a partitioning approach to the standard algorithm. Analysis of class means on immediate, retention, and delayed retention tests indicated that use of the standard algorithm was more effective. (JP)

A theorem on divisibility in decimal and non-decimal numeration systems is developed; its use in a series of discovery-centered lessons is suggested. (DT)

Utilizes two interpretations for the positive and negative signs to demonstrate how multiplication and division involving negative numbers can be represented and their inverse nature illustrated. (RP)