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Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2019
This is a companion piece to "Professional Learning Community: Improving Mathematical Problem Solving for Students in Grades 4 through 8. Facilitator's Guide. REL 2019-002" (ED595201). It contains handouts to accompany each of the sessions included in the facilitator's guide.
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Communities of Practice, Grade 4
Handley, Bill – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2007
This book is about playing with mathematics, teaching: (1) How to multiply and divide large numbers mentally; (2) Making addition and subtraction easy; (3) Tricks for understanding fractions and decimals; and (4) How to quickly check answers for each calculation. Described as a foolproof way to do multiplication, division, factoring estimating,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Subtraction, Numbers, Mathematics
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Gunn, Bruce; Mitchell, Ivor S. – Journal of Business Communication, 1982
The Self-Actualizing Case Method (SACM) fosters high trainee involvement by making the group responsible for all aspects of the case study, including its presentation, analysis, and peer evaluation. The authors discuss this teaching method and include a survey analysis of trainees' attitudes to SACM. (PD)
Descriptors: Business Education, Case Studies, Educational Research, Higher Education
Luckner, John L. – 1987
The paper explains why outdoor adventure education programs have been successful in enhancing the self-esteem of special needs students. Such an approach features physically or psychologically demanding outdoor pursuits to provide meaningful challenges through self-discovery and personal growth. Ways in which the program fosters five prerequisites…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Educational Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Outdoor Activities
Davis, Arda B.; Gill, Sandra J. – Illinois Teacher of Home Economics, 1989
The authors argue that home economics teachers should teach critical thinking and problem solving to their students. They demonstrate the uses of questioning and concept attainment to develop such skills. (CH)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Home Economics, Postsecondary Education, Problem Solving
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Laing, Robert A. – Mathematics Teacher, 1985
Two problem-solving skills, guess-and-test and simplification, are introduced and reinforced through a variety of motivating problem situations. Solutions of sample problems and extensive directions for the teacher encourage the use of Polya's four-step model of problem solving. (MNS)
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Secondary Education
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Chandler, David – Physics Teacher, 1991
Two computer-generated star charts that can be used as overlay transparencies to show an expanding universe are presented. Directions on how to use the star charts to determine the Hubble constant and the age of the universe are provided. (KR)
Descriptors: Astronomy, Physics, Problem Solving, Science Activities
Duea, Joan; And Others – 1991
Designed by classroom teachers who, through repeated experimentation, identified activities that proved successful in developing students' understanding of citizenship, this unit contains 12 lessons that focus on the multicultural dimensions of citizenship. Each lesson includes objectives, procedures, and materials designed to involve students…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Critical Thinking, Cultural Education, Elementary Education
Nuernberger, Anna – 1978
Presented are the skills needed for facilitating and linking. A role play experience provides the opportunities for issues and concerns to be made explicit. The role play process permits conflict points to be made explicit and to be specified in a psychologically safe context. Because the role play is "make believe," there is permission…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Education, Group Dynamics, Information Dissemination
Brown, Stephen I.; Walter, Marion I. – 1983
The focus of this book is on a rationale and a set of strategies for problem generation in mathematics. Six chapters attempt to involve readers in the process of posing problems and in understanding why that process is important. Chapter 1 discusses two problem posing perspectives, while chapter 2 looks at the first phase of problem posing. The…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Induction
Grotberg, Edith H.; Fowler, Austine – 1981
This users' manual, intended for use with a Project Head Start teacher training notebook, describes the purpose, development and field testing of the training materials and suggests procedures for using the notebook as a resource in teacher training sessions. The training notebook to which the users' manual refers is based on 11 questions in the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Guidelines, Material Development, Postsecondary Education
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Gill, John; Markby, Jane – Journal of Biological Education, 1991
A method for demonstrating eutrophication that can be used as a simple illustration of the phenomenon or as a basis for problem-solving activities is presented. A sample worksheet with procedures for this activity and discussion questions is included. (Author/KR)
Descriptors: Biology, Environmental Education, Problem Solving, Science Activities
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Fox, Kenneth – Physics Teacher, 1991
An activity in which students use a rubber band and flexible straws to pull a dynamics cart so that the cart has a consistent angle and, therefore, a consistent horizontal component of force is described. A copy of the handout for the activity is included. (KR)
Descriptors: Acceleration (Physics), Force, Graphs, Physics
Zinger, David J. – 1986
This manual was developed to facilitate the initial training of a group of pre-retirement peer counselors and to introduce them to the basics of helping for clients facing pre-retirement issues. An introduction explains the use of the manual and urges users to complete suggested exercises when reading the manual. The next section lists learning…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Foreign Countries, Helping Relationship, Learning Activities
Baldwin, Grover H. – 1986
The use of quantitative decision making tools provides the decision maker with a range of alternatives among which to decide, permits acceptance and use of the optimal solution, and decreases risk. Training line administrators in the use of these tools can help school business officials obtain reliable information upon which to base district…
Descriptors: Accountability, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
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