Considers some environmental changes that would occur from one person living on a virgin piece of land and calls attention to information needed by students from grades 7 through 12 to become involved in a wilderness simulation activity. Homework assignments, discussion questions, follow-up activities and folk art projects are described.…

A project carried out in Peterborough County, Canada, resulted in the systematic development, implementation, and evaluation of a K-10 mathematics program and a steady increase in achievement among students in the county. (SK)

Results suggest that adults may not be able to discover-invent-produce the learning that is necessary to behave more effectively; that they may be unaware of this possibility; and that if they try to get help from well intentioned others, it will tend to make things worse. (Author/AM)

Problem-solving ability has been assessed within the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners through the use of patient management problems (PMPs) in both medical and surgical areas. It is shown that the highest marks in PMPs are being achieved by students who arrive at the correct diagnosis without accumulating excessive information and…

A rationale and educational plan for teaching statistical orientation (not statistics per se) by means of a series of practice questions is presented. Set in a context of practice, the questions do not seem to provoke the hostility among social work students that often typifies their reactions to traditional statistics courses. (Author/LBH)

Elements to be included in a systematic approach to helping managers in their work and in the process to obtain relevant learning are outlined, along with methods of handling the interaction between the work pressures on managers and trends in the business environment. (MF)

Three activities which provide experience in writing and solving original story problems are described. (JT)

Findings of a California secondary school survey of procedures for solving students' problems are presented here, along with recommendations for designing an effective problem-solving mechanism. (Author)

Presents a computational example of a quantum theory chemistry suitable for inclusion in an undergraduate physical chemistry course. (SL)

Encourages the examination of incorrect responses given by students to questions in the belief that the responses will reveal information concerning subjects' logical thinking and concept-forming abilities. College students' incorrect responses to physical science questions are analyzed. (CP)

Corrected solutions including radiation damping are obtained from relativistically correct equations of motion for a free electron in a plane electromagnetic wave. (SL)

This paper traces the historical attention problem solving has received as a major curriculum goal from the Dewey School of 1896 to the 1970's. (MN)

This paper focuses on Islamic Art with its characteristic complex geometric patterns as an instance of mathematical constructs being used as a solution for artistic problems. (MN)

Describes the treatment of hard-core potentials (nucleon-nucleon interaction) in quantum mechanics. (SL)

The process of designing a learning system for an undergraduate business course in problem solving is described. The system includes pre-testing, problem solving strategies, providing practice and evaluating systems performance. (MN)