A method for sketching functions and finding slopes and roots rising synthetic division is illustrated. (MK)

Included in this department are brief articles on generating primitive Pythagorean triples with a computer program; using pictographs or pictures on graph paper to teach general graphing concepts; a method for factoring trinomials; and summing the harmonic series. (MNS)

Four problems are presented and solutions using a calculator are illustrated. (MK)

Included in this section are brief articles on making up a story to explain a graph, the inverse of a function of a single variable, and exotic horse-race wagering and combinatorics. (MNS)

Practical tips on the teaching of subtraction, addition and subtraction of fractions, and finding the vertex of a parabola are given. (MK)

This section includes brief articles on holding a 'metric review show,' the 'normal' approach to graphing, graphing polynomials by using the powers of the factors, and some sum derivations. (MNS)

The advanced study program sponsored by the U.S. Naval Academy for the Anne Arundel Public Schools is described. Graphs, Games, and Puzzles and Strange Algebras are two of the courses presented. (MNS)