Describes how to evaluate trade books (i.e., books other than textbooks) that are oriented towards teaching mathematics. (Contains 22 references.) (Author)

Presents a framework to gather information about student interests then create problem-solving situations based on those interests. This activity can help give equal access to mathematics for all students, including those who have historically had difficulty with mathematics as presented in schools. (KHR)

Features activities and problems designed to appeal directly to students and be relevant to today's world. (KHR)

Illustrates a modeling approach used by Singapore educators to teach mathematical skills and concepts in a problem-solving environment. (Contains 11 references.) (YDS)

Discusses examples of the detailed explanations that students offered in response to a written, open-ended geometry task, especially the ways in which students communicated their knowledge. Illustrates how different students may select different methods of communication such as using text, diagrams, or mathematical symbols to display their…

Presents action research in the classroom that involves a semantic feature analysis task to help students develop reasoning skills. (YDS)

Illustrates the varied mathematical reasoning involved when a geometric construction problem is solved with three different manipulative tools. (Author/NB)

Develops a week-long, problem-based mathematics curriculum focusing on proportions and explains instructional and assessment strategies. (YDS)

Describes an activity in which students demonstrate through a variety of creative mathematical analogies just how big Bill Gates's fortune is. (YDS)

Helps students develop new insights into mathematical relationships through alternative representations. Examines patterns, symbolic, and functions approaches. (Contains 11 references.) (YDS)

Investigates problems called "cranium crackers" and focuses on number sense, logical reasoning, data analysis, geometry, measurement, and algebraic thinking. (Author/NB)

Investigates children's knowledge of concrete versions of additive composition, commutativity, and associativity. Reports that in study one, four-to five-year-olds (n=24) and five- to six-year-olds (n=25) judged the equivalence of conceptually related addition problems using groups of objects. States that in study two, five- to six-year-olds…

Outlines the distinctive features of a small-scale literacy program offered to urban Aboriginal school students, which was premised on understandings of critical multi-literacies and explored through technological environments and texts. Argues for literacy programs to address critical practices that interrogate texts across multiple texts and…

Focuses attention on the potential of deliberation for citizenship training in the academy. Offers lessons learned from case studies of courses in communication and political science to demonstrate the degree to which problems faced with deliberation in the wider population manifest themselves in the classroom. Presents examples of how these…

Discusses a team-oriented formal testing method used in a mathematical modeling course taught during the Alma College intensive spring term. Asks the question, If a collaborative teaching method is used, how does one assess students' acquisition of problem-solving and mathematical-thinking skills? (Author/MM)