A procedure for constructing a magic cube is presented, with related teaching activities appropriate for students familiar or unfamiliar with the algorithm covered. (MP)

A model that can be effectively used to develop the notion of function and provide varied practice by using "real world" examples and concrete objects is covered. The use of Popsicle-sticks is featured, with some suggestions for tasks involving functions with one operation, two operations, and inverse operations covered. (MP)

Four ideas dealing with applications of telling time are featured. Activities covered include sequencing routine daily events, scheduling appointments, watching television, and calculating elapsed time across time zones. Worksheets suitable for duplication are provided. The activities are considered practical and adaptable to problem-solving…

This section has four topics: (1) sample mathematical competency problems for Indiana Elementary Teachers circa 1920; (2) an unusual problem suitable for calculators; (3) a unique way for teaching rounding off numbers; and (4) student construction of problems that create words on calculator displays when they are turned upside down. (MP)

Suggests improvisational role-playing of fairy tales as a method of teaching social problem-solving skills to students. Presents a sample activity session based on the "Pied Piper of Hamelin." (SJL)

Community problem solving as an aspect of continuing education is traced from the colonial period to the present. This review shows that educational programs to help adults identify and solve community problems are not a recent innovation. (Author/JOW)

Investigates the effects of M. B. Rowe's science teaching and questioning techniques in elementary school language arts classrooms. Reviews definitions and applications of wait-time and assesses the effectiveness of wait-time techniques in the improvement of teachers' and students' oral discourse. (HOD)

Offers data collected from 15 English teachers to suggest patterns of attitudes, outlooks, and "survival strategies" of interest to other teachers. (RL)

Describes the process and outcomes of placing four disabled adults and one mother of a cerebral palsied child as teaching assistants in preschool, second- and fourth-grade classrooms in two California schools. Suggests that the employment of disabled persons in public education is an effective way of integrating special needs children into regular…

Monte Carlo methods are used to simulate activities in baseball such as a team's "hot streak" and a hitter's "batting slump." Student participation in such simulations is viewed as a useful method of giving pupils a better understanding of the probability concepts involved. (MP)

Results of the second mathematics assessment of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are analyzed with regard to the performance of 13- and 17-year-olds on probability exercises. The results suggest that this area has been neglected in mathematics instruction. (MP)

Presents a study of the influence of an investigative skills environmental education program upon the problem identification skills of junior high students. Members of the experimental group (N=43) consistently outperformed students in a general science course (N=40) on measures of skills in problem identification. (Author/WB)

Considers the interconnection of curriculum problems and the processes by which they are treated and argues that much is to be gained by seeing curriculum problems and processes as instances of much wider sets of problems and processes generally belonging in the area of public policymaking. (Author/MLF)

Subjects were trained against their initial dimensional preference in a two-dimensional simultaneous discrimination learning task. (RH)

A clinical decision-making simulation that helps students understand the relationship between psychosocial factors and medical problem-solving is described. A group of medical students and one faculty member comprise a selection committee to agree on the order in which four patients will be selected for renal dialysis. (MLW)