Discusses how to use technology to enhance literacy skills. Highlights include defining literacy, including information literacy; research to support reading and writing instruction; literacy software; thinking skills; organizational strategies for writing and reading; how technology can individualize literacy instruction; and a new genre of…

Presents a logical reasoning problem pivotal to the novel "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" and discusses it at two levels. (Author/NB)

Presents a discovery activity that connects mathematics and the world of entertainment. Combines geometric transformations with a calculator's DRAW, MATRIX, and PRGM features to generate visual reinforcement of mathematical concepts. (Author/NB)

Explains how middle school mathematics topics are often taught as separate, discrete topics without a unifying thread. Discusses the importance of proportionality as a concept with the potential to untie, relate, and clarify many important, complex middle grades ideas into a cohesive theme. (YDS)

Describes students' generalization strategies and justifications as they engage in patterning activities. (YDS)

Uses concrete models to teach conventional algebraic topics with emphasis on connections to other mathematical concepts such as notion of variable, number properties, and geometry. (Contains 10 references.) (YDS)

Investigates and explores questions and activities related to using a calendar. Students explore number sense and operations, logical reasoning, data analysis, probability, and algebra. (Author/NB)

Investigates and explores questions and activities on pets. Students explore number sense and operations, logical reasoning, data analysis, and algebra. (Author/NB)

Presents an activity that focuses on fractions. Students engage in number sense and operations, logical reasoning, writing, and real-world applications of fraction concepts. (Author/NB)

Describes how students develop proportional reasoning through problem solving. Identifies the essential components of proportional reasoning and includes recommendations for instruction. (YDS)

Describes an Internet-based project to familiarize students with online investment analysis and stock portfolio management. Outlines a process for writing learning outcomes that address three levels of cognition: knowledge/comprehension, application/analysis, and synthesis/evaluation. (SK)

Investigates secondary school students' concepts of isotopes and allotropes and how the concepts are linked to the Periodic Table of Elements (PTE). Questions senior high school students with multiple choice items and interviews. Shows that students actively tried to make sense of what they had experienced. (KHR)

Defines 'thenwhat' as the moment when strategy that is supposed to be about mathematical thinking has no clear path forward as a result. Discusses how strategies designed to stimulate mathematical learning and thinking go nowhere if teachers do not think about where to go next or how to use what happens as a result of the strategy. (KHR)

Describes "World Class Tests in Mathematics and Problem-Solving," developed with the belief that creativity is worth nurturing and can be nurtured. (KHR)

Investigates the effect of gender and reasoning ability on the human circulatory system concepts achievement and attitude toward biology. Reports a statistically significant mean difference between concrete and formal students with regard to achievement and attitude toward biology. (Contains 24 references.) (Author/YDS)