In this article, the authors document their experiences with a new resource called "My Money." The resource consists of units for teaching financial capability at key stages 3 and 4, and is broken into six main sections: (1) "Money--What is it?"; (2) "Earning it"; (3) "Spending it"; (4) "Investing…

Offers an instructional approach and an exercise that can serve as a useful introduction to stratified random sampling. (ASK)

Presents a mathematics learning cycle that can be use in teaching mathematics and gives two examples of how this learning cycle can be utilized in mathematics classrooms. (ASK)

Introduces a room air-exchange activity designed to assess student understanding of the concept of volume. Lists materials for the activity and its procedures. Includes the lesson plan and a student worksheet. (KHR)

Introduces The Square Thing, a lesson that engages and invites student development of problem solving and reasoning skills, understanding through connections within the content, and mathematics voice. Describes components for successful pedagogy and benefits for students experiencing this and similar mathematics pedagogies. (Author/MM)

This book consists of a series of activities aimed at providing a problem solving, hands-on approach so that students can experience concepts in algebra. Topics include ratio and proportion, patterns and formulas, integers, polynomials, linear equations, graphs, and probability. The activities come in the form of reproducible blackline masters…

In the early 1980s, American College Testing (ACT) saw a need for a system that would respond to the planning and assessment needs of students, parents, teachers, and administrators, and conducted an extensive review of what was being taught in American schools from grade 7 through college-sophomore level in order to identify the important…

Emphasizes the commonalities among classes of polynomial functions. Provides exploratory activities for students as well as a teacher's guide. (KHR)

Presents problems designed to focus student attention on the visual representations that accompany the verbal statements of problem situations involving motion over a period of time. Shows that as a result of engaging in these activities, students gain a better understanding of a given problem situation before they apply procedures to answer…

Discusses the benefits of learning the history of mathematics and how it can be useful in teaching as well as interesting. Provides information on how to put mathematics in its historical context, show the interaction of mathematics with cultures, and shed light on the teaching and learning of mathematics. (Contains 25 references.) (ASK)

Describes a teaching experience through student-centered activities in a second year algebra class with gifted and talented students. Concludes that students learned more mathematics than the teacher originally planned to teach. (KHR)

Describes how to teach the coefficient of determination and correlation coefficient. Includes a worksheet for correlation and regression activities. (KHR)

Presents a way of using greeting cards created by graphing calculators to teach the transformation of functions. Illustrates the steps of making a calculator greeting card and students' descriptions of transformations. (KHR)

Presents a mathematics review game appropriate for middle school or high school students that requires all students to participate. (Author/NB)

Presents a mathematics game appropriate for middle school or high school students that aids in the teaching and understanding of closure properties. (Author/NB)