This document is intended as a teacher's guide to the three course options open to 10th-grade students in Manitoba. The material opens with an overview, which, after an introduction, looks at the structure for senior high school mathematics, a description of senior high courses, the use of mathematics, the general goal, objectives for 7th through…

This report on the second Census of Secondary School Course Offerings, conducted in 1982, provides data on offering and enrollments in the Illinois public schools grades 7 through 12, and updates the first Census of 1977. Data were collected for 489 junior high schools (82% of the total) and 719 high schools (99% of the total). Discussed in the…

This document provides criteria which are designed to be used by school administrators, professional staff, and community representatives to assess mathematics programs and to provide a basis for establishing goals in teaching mathematics. Other possible uses for the information generated by the criteria include: validation of exemplary programs…

A method for generating 3x3 magic squares is developed. A series of questions relating to these magic squares is posed. An invesitgation using matrix methods is suggested with some questions for consideration. (LS)

The effects of negative instances on the acquisition of the mathematical concepts of commutativity and associativity were examined. Also investigated were possible transfer effects that might result from the use of negative instances. For 64 ninth-grade subjects, results favored the treatments containing mixed instances and supported the transfer…

Books on the general background of computer use and on the programming of computers are reviewed. In a second section, newsletters and journals concerned with computers and computer education are described. (DT)

Described is a method of teaching mathematics to mixed ability classes. The presentation of topics, the organization within the classroom and the difficulties met by teachers are discussed. The problems of homework and assessment are also considered. The teacher's role is compared with that in a streamed situation. (JP)

This set of guidelines replaces the 1969 Guidelines. Planned to assist local committees in planning curricula, it contains objectives for which local school systems must determine criteria for acceptable performance. Guiding principles on philosophy, objectives, evaluation, providing for individual differences, instructional aids, and calculators…

This document provides supplementary chapters for junior high school students studying SMSG or SMSG-type mathematics. Chapters include: (1) Sets; (2) Special Figures in Project Geometry; (3) Repeating Decimals and Tests for Divisibility; (4) Open and Closed Paths; (5) Finite Differences; (6) Recent Information on Primes; and (7) Games. Each…

This book contains the tenth chapter of a pilot mathematics sequence for the seventh and eighth grades. The content of the sequence is to serve as a vehicle for the development of relevant computational skills, mathematical reasoning, and geometric perception in three dimensions and is to reflect the application of mathematics to the social and…

This book contains the fifth and sixth chapters of the second course of a pilot mathematics sequence for the seventh and eighth grades. The content of the sequence is to serve as a vehicle for the development of relevant computational skills, mathematical reasoning, and geometric perception in three dimensions and is to reflect the application of…

This manual is designed to coordinate the various components of the Academic Advancement Program - Mathematics, an individualized, self-paced instructional program designed for use in grades 6 through 8 and for remediation in grades 9 through 11. The following six essential components of the program are explained in detail: (1) learning materials;…

A two-year modular mathematics program was developed by the Scottish Education Department; the results of pilot testing are discussed. The program consists of nine four-modular cycles. Groups of students work on different modules of the same cycle. Modules include worksheets, activity cards, and laboratory apparatus. (SD)

The use of paper folding to demonstrate polygons which give plane tessellations, conic sections, and the solutions to several problems is described. (SD)