Five reasons are discussed for teaching estimation involving utility, problem solving, concept formation, calculations, and attitude. Specific types of estimation are analyzed and examples given. (MP)

The Office of Gifted and Talented, New Jersey, and the Department of Education and Industrial Arts of Glassboro, South Carolina, cosponsored the first "Olympics of the Mind," a competition designed to develop and recognize the creative talents of high school students. The activity is described, and information for schools and teachers is provided.…

Problem solving is presented as a resource for creating curriculum through reflections on intuition such as: exploring available intuitions, making explicit the intuitions used, and using intuition to generalize. (MP)

A major source of challenging problems for students is the use of higher mathematics to derive elementary problems. Several examples are given. (MP)

Fifth graders who were poor at solving word problems in arithmetic were given special training in how to attack these problems; however, the short-term training program did not bring significant improvement in the children's problem-solving ability. (Editor/MM)

Models relating individual and group problem solving solution times under the condition of limited time (time limit censoring) are presented. Maximum likelihood estimation of parameters and a goodness of fit test are presented. (Author/JKS)

A situation is presented that is intended to lead to open-ended mathematical discussions that allow students to conjecture, discover, and prove mathematical statements. (MP)

A behavioral consultation school psychology service model is presented which provides a vehicle for services and communication of process and outcome measures in program evaluation research. The consultation model promotes process and outcome evaluation, leads to use of an applied research technology, and provides a communication technology for…

The study reported is the first in a series of investigations designed to empirically test the hypothesis that calculators reduce quantitative working time and increase computational accuracy, and to examine the relative magnitude of benefit that accompanies utilizing calculators compared to manual work. (MN)

A strategy is proposed to function as a set of heuristics which may be applied to any instructional development model for the purpose of coordinating client and developer needs and goals in respect to the solution of a particular instructional problem. (Author)

Described is a technique developed to help beginning programing students with limited experience in both a computer language and computer logic write a successful game program in BASIC. (MP)

A general method is given for determining an efficient problem-solving process for a given type problem. An application of the method is then described in an experiment involving teaching indefinite integration. (MP)

Three examples illustrate a method for solving word problems: guess a solution, write an expression to check the guess, and substitute a variable for the guess in the expression. (MP)

Discusses some theorems and properties of figures produced when circles are tangent to one another. (GA)

The ability to raise effective questions for problem-solving learning requires considerable skill and much preparation and practice. This research provides a brief examination of three problem-solving models for both elementary and secondary-level classrooms and emphasizes the development of an appropriate teacher question repertory for each phase…