Describes an activity that allows students to investigate families of linear functions and families of quadratic functions. Offers an opportunity for students to conjecture, explain, and justify in an environment based on Euclidean geometry. Includes a teacher's guide, answers, and student worksheets. (KHR)

Presents activities for using the Internet to teach mathematics. Includes various web sites. (NB)

Emphasizes the importance of children exploring hands-on and minds-on mathematics. Presents a midpoint shape activity for students to explore the midpoint shape of familiar quadrilaterals, such as squares and rectangles. (KHR)

Presents the stair skipping problem to foster improved communication among mathematics teachers. (KHR)

Presents a teaching experience that resulted in students getting to a point of full understanding of the kinesthetic activity and the algebra behind it. Includes a lesson plan for a traffic jam activity. (KHR)

Uses a probability tree to predict the most likely wild card team for a National League Championship. (KHR)

Demonstrates the use of hexagonal dot paper in integrating algebra, geometry, and trigonometry within a single problem-solving setting rather than treating them in isolation. Suggests other related mathematically challenging activities for enrichment. (AIM)

Describes a number line activity based on students' individual timelines to help students understand the concepts of integers and rational numbers. Middle school students and their parents construct a number line using positive and negative rational numbers to represent dates of events before and after the student's birth. (KHR)

Develops a method for visualizing the complex roots of a polynomial equation. Illustrates some quadratic or cubic polynomials and their solutions. (KHR)

Presents activities to incorporate Polya's four-step problem-solving process. (KHR)

Presents a poem written to reassure parents that they make an impact on their children's mathematical awareness through everyday activities. (Author)

Describes an activity in which students roll balls down a ramp to measure the distance rolled under varying conditions. (Author/YDS)

Discusses the Tiles and Sides problem from the December 2000 issue. Indicates that this problem is accessible to students at different grade levels. Presents samples of student responses and their teachers' analysis. (KHR)

Describes a multisensory method for teaching the order of operations. (YDS)

Presents an activity investigating what happens when a decimal point is in the wrong position or used at all. (YDS)