Discusses the mathematics used by Bernard Harris, Jr., the first African American astronaut to walk in space who is also an engineer, physician, medical research scientist, and pioneer space doctor. Includes a mission specialist activity sheet about understanding the magnitude of living in space. (MKR)

A worksheet is provided for helping students compute the distance a stewardess walks while serving meals to passengers. (DT)

Discusses classroom activities that involve applications of fractal geometry. Includes an activity sheet that explores Pascal's triangle, Sierpinsky's gasket, and modular arithmetic in two and three dimensions. (Author/MKR)

An activity is described as an example of an application that draws on the behavior of current in electrical circuits to create a symbolic algebra. Five worksheets are included, with discussion of their use. (MNS)

Four ideas dealing with applications of telling time are featured. Activities covered include sequencing routine daily events, scheduling appointments, watching television, and calculating elapsed time across time zones. Worksheets suitable for duplication are provided. The activities are considered practical and adaptable to problem-solving…

This is a worksheet with background material to facilitate tabulation of water and energy use at home. (MCO)

This set of worksheets provides exercises related to making change, spending a fixed amount of money by "buying" items at listed prices, and deciding which of two quantities of coins has greater value. (SD)

The topic of numeration is the focus for the activities presented. Worksheets provide practice with whole numbers, fractions, mixed numbers, decimals, and percents. These activities are designed to help students think about ways of representing and naming quantities. (MP)

Presents activities in which students study exponential growth and decay by collecting data, constructing graphs, and discovering algebraic formulas. (MKR)

Describes an activity that integrates the study of fractions, decimals, percents, rounding, Cartesian coordinates, probability, and statistics into a game using baseball statistics. (MKR)

Presents mathematics activities that give students in grades three through six practice in writing and problem solving by using the setting of a zoo or animal park. Includes reproducible student worksheets. (MKR)

This valuable collection of materials was developed to incorporate the calculator as an instructional aid in ninth- and tenth-grade general and basic mathematics classes. The materials are also appropriate for grades 7 and 8. After an introductory section which teaches the use of the calculator, four games and activities are described. For these…

Describes the use of geometry now by a U.S. Department of Defense quality assurance representative and in ancient times by the Egyptians and Babylonians. Includes reproducible student worksheets on quality assurance. (MKR)

This compilation of reprinted activities is organized into five sections around the following topics: computational skills, calculators, geometry, measurement, and problem solving. The "Activities" section has been a regular feature of the Mathematics Teacher since 1972, and space limitations prohibited the inclusion of all previously published…

Presented is the teacher's guide to the "Measuring in Metric" supplementary mathematics textbook. The material begins with a list of 29 student objectives. The booklet and student text limit exploration to the units of measurement for length, capacity, mass, temperature, area, and volume, with only the following prefixes considered: kilo, hecto,…