Describes a training program based on number crunching that helps runners improve their performance. Includes a student activity sheet. (YDS)

Uses advertisements to develop an understanding of very small numbers. (YDS)

Investigates problems called "cranium crackers" and focuses on number sense, logical reasoning, data analysis, geometry, measurement, and algebraic thinking. (Author/NB)

Describes how school improvement goals align with the Illinois Learning Standards to ultimately develop a school's mathematics goals. Reports that "Math Wizard Wednesdays" were offered as part of a school-wide goal, and as an intervention for students and staff that served as an ongoing reminder of improvement goals. (Contains 11 figures…

Summarizes the basic position and recommendations of a recently released joint position statement of the National Association for the Education of Young Children and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics regarding effective, engaging early childhood mathematics education. Recommended educational practices include integrating mathematics…

Investigates ways to analyze change in various contexts. Focuses on computer technology providing contexts for children's investigations of patterns of change and helping to develop foundational ideas of algebra and calculus. Discusses relationships between patterns of change, fundamental algebraic notions as linear and nonlinear functions, and…

Presents a discovery lesson in which students investigate the limit of angle measures formed by repeatedly folding a strip of paper. (KHR)

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)

Suggests some questions and prompts that teachers can adapt and use to promote mathematical power in their students. Argues that asking children to share their strategies for solving problems is a simple but powerful learning tool for promoting understanding. Presents four classroom vignettes as an example. (ASK)

Introduces a few examples of Mangbetu designs and examines their underlying structure. Describes Mangbetu design and analyzes its geometric features. (ASK)

Presents an activity using dynamic-geometry system software to create an environment in which all students can explore and extend the locus definition of conics. (ASK)

Describes an activity that engages pupils in the whole statistical process from collecting data to interpreting the results. Discusses the importance of these activities in developing knowledge, skills, understanding, and ability in problem solving. (Author/ASK)

Considers how the World Wide Web is used by mathematics educators and describes a multiphase teaching experiment designed to determine if the World Wide Web is a viable means of accessing course materials. Discusses the resources involved in supporting such access. (DDR)

Describes a mathematics activity using square pads of notepaper and sticky notes to do simple paper folding in order to increase students' understanding of fractions. (ASK)

Discusses how teachers can infuse culture into the curriculum and develop students' competence and confidence by using ethnomathematics. Examines the mathematics of the Mayan civilization. Contains 22 references. (ASK)