Discussion of transfer capability focuses on a study of secondary education students in the Netherlands that investigated transfer in mathematics education. Describes the construction of a computer-assisted program based on strengthening the connection of strategic and domain specific knowledge and offering hints during teaching as well as during…

Reports on a research study that examined how some teachers used graphing calculators in their instruction of mathematics, and how their views of mathematics were manifested in the ways in which they chose to use this technology. Suggests that teachers used graphing technology as an extension to the way they always taught the unit. Contains 23…

Introduces the whole number machine and describes its use as an odometer in an addition game. Presents an activity in which students learn mathematics while they fly across the globe. (Contains 12 references.) (ASK)

Describes an investigation that leads to one of the significant contributions that sabermetrics--new approaches to gaining information about baseball from its numerical records--has made to our understanding of baseball. (ASK)

Presents activities that combine astronomy problems with algebra, geometry, trigonometry, data analysis, and physics. Provides experiences for students in making distance measurements themselves by using the method of parallax. (ASK)

Describes a teaching approach that can make the deriving of the volume of a right circular cone a valuable problem-solving activity for upper secondary students. (ASK)

Describes a prototype package that uses algorithms created within the symbolic algebra system Axiom, numerical routines from the NAG Libraries together with the easy-to-use facilities of modern graphical interfaces. Considers the implementation of different techniques, both symbolic and numeric, for the analysis and calculation of interpolating…

This article describes the lessons introduced to middle school children in the Washington, D.C., area on the stock market. Students kept eight weeks of records and learned about decimals and place value. (Contains 5 figures.)

The concepts of ratio and proportion are among the most important topics in school mathematics, especially at the middle school level. However, studies have repeatedly shown that most middle school students have difficulties with these concepts (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2000). This article includes ideas and examples used by…

This article, which originally appeared in the May 1998 issue of "Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School," explores the runway numbering system. The activity described in this paper furnishes an excellent setting for discussing rounding rules and, in particular, what to do if the digit to the right of the place to be rounded is equal to five. A…

This article describes a mathematical communication game that was used by the author to facilitate middle school students' understanding of algebraic expressions. (Contains 1 table and 2 figures.)

This article describes four hands-on activities that can be used to develop probabilistic and statistical thinking in the middle grades. (Contains 3 figures and 1 table.)

This article from the NCTM's 2003 Yearbook Learning and Teaching Measurement discusses various literary works containing measurement topics. (Contains 1 figure and 26 resources.)

This article describes a connection between literature and mathematics through a story-graphing project. (Contains 7 figures.)

This article illustrates how teachers can use the Harry Potter book series to teach linear modeling and probability to their students. (Contains 2 tables and 4 figures.)