This book contains "math mind benders," puzzles that are worked like crossword puzzles except that each square is filled with a digit rather than a letter. Clues to the puzzles are interrelated with each other and a given story. Clear thinking and deductive reasoning must be used to find potential answers and eliminate those that fail to meet all…

This document discusses the teaching of problem solving in environmental education. From an interdisciplinary viewpoint, this study describes some strategies for teaching that can favor the practice of educational activities oriented toward solving the concrete problems of the surrounding environment. The volume is divided into seven chapters. The…

Activity theory is a perspective that is largely rooted in the writing of Soviet psychologists. One of the premises of the theory is that human behavior and thinking occur within meaningful contexts as people conduct purposeful goal directed activity. The primary unit of psychological study should be socially organized human activity, rather than…

Difficulties inherent in the dual classification of gifted and learning disabled are analyzed, and research on the issue is reviewed. The Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Model is used to identify problems in service provision for gifted/learning disabled students. Areas of concern are listed and then expanded by using the five steps of the CPS…

Experiments were designed to estimate separately time required to encode the premises of a three-term series problem and time required to generate an answer. It appears that marked and unmarked adjectives are stored in the same form and premises are integrated into a unified representation. (CHK)

Results of preliminary field work with a number of educational agencies in the Atlanta area attempting to assess the interest of key decision-makers in such agencies in systems analysis approaches to problems and the level of problem with which such interest is embraced is reported. (Author)

A variety of ways for teaching children to study the future have been suggested with the emphasis on the ability to solve problems creatively. (RK)

Article investigated creative thought and creative ideas possessed by those with if! minds as contrasted with the but! minds possessed by those whose initial response to the invitation to think and to extend is a reaction rather than a pro-action. (Editor/RK)

This article considered declining enrollments and empty classroom space as well as what to do with old and inefficent school buildings. (Author/RK)

Article stressed the need for realizing that the courts cannot resolve all the problems of those who are mentally depressed and for judges and court personnel to recognize depression as being a multi-faceted problem. (Author/RK)

Author reported on a community in Northern Ireland where religion is no longer a dirty word. (Editor/RK)

Article discussed team teaching and new tools for planning and supervision being developed at the Pennsylvania Advancement School. (Author/RK)

The strategy of quid pro quo negotiation as it is applied to couple therapy and taught as a problem solving method to couples with unsatisfactory relationships is examined and the theoretical basis for the clinical application of quid pro quo and its potentials as a therapeutic tool presented. (Author)