Contributors suggest ways to improve students' (1) content area reading, (2) notetaking, and (3) book reports. (FL)

Map reading offers insights into a kind of literacy and communication area which involves the printed word with pictorial and symbolic representations. A method for developing basic skills in map reading within the confines of the classroom was described. (Author/RK)

Attempts a profile of the Ecole Nationale d'Administration, both from within and from without the institution. Gives two suggestions for helping those who wish to study the E.N.A. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Activities are described for a probability unit in which the Markov process is studied and applied to the weather. (DT)

A geometric area problem is analyzed and generalized. (DT)

Suggests that teachers of reading would be in error to suppose that the displacement of regular methods of reading instruction in their classes by music activities will produce exceptional gains in skills. (Author/RB)

Logic, basic skills and imagination are the bricks and mortar of a student "Architects' Studio". (Editor)

Egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, adult. Children watch and nurture a magical metamorphosis. (Editor)

Using materials clipped from newspapers, students in a Typing I laboratory learn how to tabulate, proofread, type letters, and reports, etc., and work independently and evaluate other students' work. (TA)

Contrasts learning activities designed to achieve teacher planned objectives and learning activities which permit and encourage pupils to find their own objectives. Objective-seeking activities are discussed in detail and criteria for activity assessment are suggested. (MS)

One activity concerned with describing data about students in the class and a second activity based on students' original story problems are discussed. (DT)

Four worksheets are provided for giving students experience with addition facts, subtraction facts, multiplication facts, and with building equations involving more than one operation. (DT)

Graphical representations of modular arithmetic multiplication tables and of equations in modular systems are investigated. (DT)

A paper staircase drawn on a grid forms the basis for a discovery lesson in algebra. (DT)

Short units for general mathematics students are described; sample worksheets are included. (DT)