Author introduces distinctions that occur between the inductive and deductive approaches to mathematical analysis thereby helping teachers, interested in innovative teaching methods, to understand more clearly the problems they are up against. (Author/RK)

For forty years, the nursery school movement has emphasized play as part of the socialization process, but in the past few years, much research has been aimed at the question of stimulating cognitive development in the preschool years, especially for culturally deprived children. (Author/CB)

Several skills important to successful learning by discovery were found to be less essential to successful learning by rule. Results also supported the hypothesis that the outcome of discovery is the structural integration of previously known concepts, while the outcome of rule learning is the addition of new structure. (Authors)

Article describes a student project of growing a beautiful flower garden thus giving students a greater awareness of ecology. (RK)

Although students who used the Physical Science Study Committee experiments improved in their understanding of the conservation of momentum, greater gains were made by those who used a computer simulation of one dimensional elastic collisions in a vacuum. (AL)

Discussed are possible lessons for teaching prime numbers, composite numbers, factoring, and fractions. (CT)

Discussed are several possible methods of teaching a geometry lesson on angles and arcs. (CT)

The authors define an unusual partitioning or division" operation and explore number patterns and divisibility properties which result. The topic is suggested as enrichment material. (CT)