Discusses reasons for using spreadsheets in mathematics education. Presents mathematics activities for beginning algebra classes using spreadsheets. (ASK)

Presents a mathematics problem that emphasizes looking for patterns and organizing one's efforts, and a vignette that exhibits classroom efforts while solving the problem. (ASK)

Presents an investigative process of conjecture followed by proof by induction using a combination of manipulatives and technology, placing special emphasis on the use of different representations. (ASK)

Uses everyday situations that students experience, in order to attract and hold student attention and promote understanding of linear inequalities. (ASK)

Describes an activity in which students present two mathematics-related quotations, one written by a famous mathematician and one original statement that they themselves have written. Encourages students with different strengths and learning styles to participate more fully in the lesson. (ASK)

Provides a set of classroom activities or steps that can be used to determine the area of a triangle on a sphere. (ASK)

The teacher's role in discourse is to initiate and orchestrate classroom interactions that contribute to students' understanding of mathematics. Describes instructional thoughts, struggles, and actions in order to establish and maintain an interactive mathematics-classroom discourse by emphasizing the teacher role in discourse. Provides a…

Discusses students whose mathematics anxiety resulted from past abuse, verbal or physical, by a teacher or parent while doing mathematics. Presents two examples of math abuse, the resulting math anxiety, and how the issues were addressed. Contains 14 references. (ASK)

Discusses the graphing and other technical capabilities of the TI-83. Demonstrates possible uses of it in mathematics classrooms. (ASK)

Presents an extension of a Japanese mathematics lesson involving the area of a triangle and introduces concepts from trigonometry. (ASK)

Illustrates how the Academy Awards can provide an excellent motivational tool in teaching probability and statistics and presents related activities. (ASK)

Discusses more effective uses of assessment techniques in mathematics classrooms. Presents some examples of powerful assessment techniques. (ASK)

Presents students' successful writing assessments which alleviate students' fears by assigning interesting trigonometry problems and places students in a setting in which they use critical thinking skills, express their ideas verbally with other students, express their mathematics in writing, and have fun. (ASK)

Describes a high school course created so that it is constructed of four topics dissimilar in character and bearing little mathematical relation to each other, does not demand specific prerequisite knowledge in mathematics, and provides general knowledge of game theory and its concerns. Studies students' grades and attitudes toward the course.…

Presents an activity on the simplification of penguin counting by employing the basic ideas and principles of sampling to teach students to understand and recognize its role in statistical claims. Emphasizes estimation, data analysis and interpretation, and central limit theorem. Includes a list of items for classroom discussion. (ASK)