Using license plates and telephone numbers for teaching probability ideas involving counting rules is suggested. How each is useful is illustrated in some detail. (MNS)

Defines the engineering method by: (1) giving a preliminary definition and examples of its essential term (heuristics); (2) comparing the definition to a popular alternative; and (3) presenting a simple form of the definition. This definition states that the engineering method is the use of engineering heuristics. (JN)

Presents a theoretical framework for analyzing the relationship of family and aesthetics. Reviews the aesthetics of family policymaking and presents aesthetic sensibilities in enhancing family environment. Suggests the aesthetic in the existence and form of the family as a new way of viewing family relations. (JAC)

Students (N=81) classified as effective or ineffective problem solvers after completing the Problem Solving Inventory, were then asked to complete a series of questionnaires. Results showed that self-appraised problem solvers reported less depression, less anxiety, more internal control and less frequent problems than self-perceived ineffective…

The article suggests possible reasons for difficulties with verbal (word) problems and describes two remediation strategies: re-teaching the introductory sequence for an operation and having students write their own problems. (CL)

The study involving 103 fifth graders supported previous findings linking classroom climate with students' creative functioning and indicated that both the Productive Thinking Program (PTP) and activities based on the Creative Problem Solving program were successful in enhancing students' creative problem solving. Teachers preferred the more…

Fifteen mentally retarded students (8-11 years old) who participated in interpersonal problem solving skills training that focused on such areas as language, cue sensitivity, empathy, and integrating skills demonstrated a significant increase in interpersonal problem solving behavior compared to a control group. (CL)

The adversary system is a bad bargain for everybody, these authors believe, since insecurity and fear are the results. They describe an approach they found successful and recommend that teachers and students also use it. (Editor)

Supervisory practices involving one-to-one techniques, self evaluation, or group techniques are continually being tried and evaluated. Here is a description of a principal in action as he works to improve instructional practice in his school. The setting is approximately fifty-five years ago. (Editor/RK)

The effects of memory load (simultaneous or successive presentation), number of trials (two or three), and type of information (positive, negative, or mixed) upon inference task performance of 168 five-year-old children were examined. (Author/JH)

This paper presents an initial hypothesis of instructors' beliefs about their role in helping students learn to solve problems in an introductory calculus-based physics course. Instructors see their teaching role as primarily providing resources and making suggestions, with little mentioning of how they influence the students to use the resources…

More and more communities are rallying together to solve their own problems. These broad-based initiatives are illustrations of the international healthy communities movement. The healthy communities movement emerged from the World Health Organization in 1986 and has quickly spread across the globe. A cornerstone of the movement is the Ottawa…

In this paper we put forward a theoretical position that, in cognitive terms, a differentiation should be made between a correspondence and a function. Important in understanding this difference is the role of an assignation rule; the correspondence acts as a way to identify a rule in context, whilst the function accommodates the rule in a more…

This paper introduces integrated curriculum material for high school physics developed by the Physics Education Research Group (PERG) with the University of Massachusetts and high school teachers. This curriculum is based on an action-oriented constructivist approach. There are six types of materials in the curriculum: (1) student activities; (2)…

This paper reports on the vital role that reflective thinking plays in solving problems involving the mathematics of change and variation particularly multivariable calculus. We report on how reflective thinking is one kind of self-regulatory (in the sense of metacognitive) thought mechanism. We present an outline of the results of a larger study,…