In a decade when brain research has helped people understand learning difficulties in children, and people have seen increased media attention on the use of medications to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children and adults, Dr. Edward (Ned) Hallowell has worked tirelessly to educate the medical profession, parents,…

Describes learning processes of inquiry and discovery involving six steps of teacher-student interaction: questioning, investigating, analyzing, interpreting, understanding, and answering. Presents examples of dialogue in adventure education that illustrate four learning styles within the inquiry/discovery approach: guided, shared, consultative,…

This study was designed to determine students' abilities and difficulties in articulating the relationship between function and derivative. High-school students were presented 15 problems during two 75-minute interviews in which they were asked to construct functions experimentally in three different contexts: motion, fluids, and number-change. In…