Simple experiment was conducted to lead college students to an understanding of the tenuousness and tentativeness of solutions to problems in education. After choosing a problem, students were sent to original research in scholarly journals for the collection of their data. (Author)

Presents the pro and con of the use of calculators in the classroom. Some feel that calculators make learning mathematics more fun and when used for creative problem solving provide student motivation. Others feel that dependence on the calculators will result in students unable to do simple mathematics on paper. (GS)

This study tested the hypothesis that certain specific relationships would be discovered between the instructional activity of mothers and the efficacy of their children's subsequent task ability. (Author/RK)

Article provided a few suggestions that school districts might want to consider when tackling the difficult problem of employment and retention in city schools. (Author/RK)

Basic mathemagenic concepts were tested under instructional conditions. Research areas of interest were the effect of two different types of adjunct questions and adjunct question positions on problem solving ability on prose materials. (Author/DEP)

Contending that the dominant issues confronting higher education are legal, economic, and technological, the author analyzes their specific forms of rationality and argues that although solutions will require better understanding of these forms, a broader perspective is needed that does not submerge the intellectual, cultural, and humanistic…

The behavioristic approach to education is appropriate only to areas of skill development. To design mathematics curricula from the point of view of behaviorism is to miss the essence of mathematics as a discipline. Mathematics curricula should include strong emphasis on problem solving. (SD)

Research supported by Grant No. HD-01762-01 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Project carried out under Contract No. PH 43 65-1011 between the Public Health Service, National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development and the Fels Research Institute.

Based on a paper presented at the 11th National Conference on Physicians and Schools, Chicago, Illinois, October, 1967.

Sponsored by National Institute of Mental Health grant MH-08274.

An earlier version of this article appeared in Williams, F.E. (Ed.), "First Seminar on Productive Thinking in Education. St. Paul, Minnesota: Macalester College, 1966.