A remote African Village, lacking measuring devices, is the scene of a teaching project investigating measurement. (MP)

This game involves one player guessing the numbers and operations of an equation written down by another player. (MP)

Suggestions are made for using traditional Halloween activities, such as jack-o'-lantern carving, bobbing for apples, and trick-or-treating, for classroom learning. (SJL)

The article presents techniques for teaching gifted children with the clumsy child syndrome. (Author/SBH)

Describes an experiment illustrating a lesson in wave interference using bright colors in a soap film. Illustrations provided. (MA)

A description is given of a senior seminar in which each student reported on a topic centered around the works of David Hilbert. A brief description of each topic is given as well as a list of references. (MP)

Detailed instructions are given for the construction of a line segment of length cube root of two. A proof is also given. (MP)

Two sample runs are listed of programs written in BASIC concerning subject matter areas which are not mathematics oriented. The samples concern driver education and English. (MP)

Two statements concerning magic squares, considered as 3x3 matrices, are discussed and their proofs given using only high school level techniques. (MP)

These 21 ideas will have you and your students celebrating in a variety of ways. Whether you try some of the starter ideas or one of the plays, stories, poems, or song that follow, the shared experience will boost holiday spirits. (Editor)

The author Herbert Zim says that young children are more scientists than they are anything else. The learning activities described here build on children's natural curiosity by giving them experience and practice in basic scientific skills, such as observing, investigating, experimenting, classifying, reasoning and inferring. (Author/RK)

A teacher of autistic and brain damaged children discusses factors involved in designing a group game, and describes five games for children with limited receptive and expressive language. (CL)

Includes learning activities that will help motivate students to ask questions and seek alternative solutions to problems. Children will better understand themselves and the world around them when they begin to relate to time and space, develop such thinking skills as classifying and ordering and make connections between objects and events.…

It is noted that the Montessori Approach which involves programed instruction can be useful in teaching practical living skills to retarded and other handicapped children. (SBH)