Article explores need for improvement in teaching the process of diagnosis as cruicial to delivery of appropriate medical care. (IR)

A breakdown in procedural education is responsible for the present inability to conceptualize change in medical education. (Editor/IR)

At Billings, Montana Center for Physically Handicapped Children, both the teaching techniques employed and the design of the classrooms provide the optimum learning climate. (Author/JL)

Provides ideas and suggestions for helping students increase their problem-solving skills, including a four-step general problem-solving approach. Specific examples (considering qualitative problems and problem sequence) and comments on testing/grading are also provided. (JN)

Index cards, masking tape, pizza shells, golf tees, and empty soda bottles can be used to make manipulative objects to be used in children's mathematics games. Twenty-two games that provide practice in number drills and problem solving are described, along with instructions for making objects needed for the games. (PP)

Work centered on open-ended problem solving was developed. Activities for students aged 14 focused on measurement of length are described, with problems on pygmies and giants. (MNS)

Offers a six-step model for showing young children how to handle story problems. (FL)

Investigated the roles of successful task performance and achievement instructions on attitudes regarding the guided-design approach to instruction. Results revealed that students erroneously informed that they had done well on the task stated more positive attitudes. However, the achievement instructions did not have a statistically significant…

Good writing is seen as part of the problem-solving process and a device that can stimulate creative thought in students. Many ways of helping pupils use and refine writing skills in a mathematical context are discussed. It is felt teachers of mathematics need to see students' use of such skills. (MP)

Two successful procedures for evaluating problem-solving performance in the classroom are shared. Five goals for teaching problem-solving are noted, followed by a discussion of evaluating a child's performance through joint use of: (1) analyzing written work; and (2) observing and questioning students. (MP)

As calculators and computer use increases in mathematics education, more educators are recognizing a shift in emphasis from computation to problem solving. Ways to generate problems that can be used to develop pupil creativity and insight are suggested, and process-oriented instruction is promoted. (MP)

Performance was contrasted on mathematical story problems in two formats, a drawn version and the usual verbal one, with 262 fifth graders. The drawn format resulted in superior problem-solving performance. There was a significant ATI between field independence-dependence and format treatments, although the overall treatment effects were not…

Five reasons why graph work is effective are given, followed by suggestions for making bar, picto-, and line graphs. (MS)

A way to cast computational practice or review in a problem-solving context without moving into word problems is presented. The game described is viewed as an instructional tool that will allow pupils to explore and help them to develop forerunners of important mathematical problem-solving skills. (MP)

Three examples of problems that can be adapted to different grade levels and abilities and used to help children develop problem-solving skills are discussed. Some of the specific approaches recommended for teachers in helping students to find solutions are detailed with each example. (MP)