Highlights how instruction linking home and school can be used to teach mathematics by building on experiences shared by most students. (KHR)

Explores different types of Bingo games in which students can work on mental arithmetic, solve equations, and recognize geometric shapes. (KHR)

Analyzes the arithmetized geometry from a semantical point of view and compares it with classical synthetic exposition of school geometry. Also analyzes the didactical use of one particular system of arithmetized geometry--namely Pogorelov's system--in the Greek Lyceum. Contains 33 references. (Author/JRH)

Presents a problem involving fractions for discussing and sharing of student responses to the problem at a later date. (KHR)

Analyzes from an historical perspective the extension of the natural-number domain to integers in students' transition from arithmetic to algebra in the context of word problems. Extracts four levels of acceptance of these numbers--subtrahend, relative number, isolated number and formal negative number--from historical texts. The first three…

Describes an innovative method for teaching 5th grade students how to solve ratio and proportion word problems with understanding. Uses the multiplication table as a conceptual support. (YDS)

Describes a year-long, career-based project to practice basic skills in a meaningful context until such skills are transferred to long-term memory. (YDS)

Shows the thinking used by students to solve the problem "Who Scored What?" that appeared in the February 2001 issue of this journal. (YDS)

Describes how the human body can be used to make sense of various number patterns and relationships. (YDS)

Describes some differences in representations of mathematical concepts and procedures of recent immigrants. Discusses considerations for success of recent immigrants. (YDS)

Presents an activity using a number grid to challenge second grade students' concepts related to counting change. (KHR)

A learning and teaching approach using base-10 blocks to embody the English named-value system of number words and digit cards to embody the positional base-10 system of numeration is described. Examines the students' understanding and arithmetic skills on the multidigit arithmetic. (Author/YP)

Evaluation of the group-based technology system of providing immediate, item-by-item feedback on mathematics problems with 15 learning disabled elementary school students found students completed significantly more problems and increased their level of accuracy in the feedback condition. (Author/DB)

Two studies on the effectiveness of supplemental homework assignments on the acquisition of basic skills (math facts and spelling) with elementary school-aged learning-disabled students found three factors which maximized homework effectiveness: rate of homework completion, percentage correct of the homework, and rate of acquisition of the content…

Addresses one of the more serious criticisms made concerning the Lacanian concept of the Real, that made by Francois Roustang, who accuses Lacan of intentionally blurring the two distinct registers of this concept. Wordsworth's poem, "We Are Seven," illustrates the Real as pure loss through its representation of family relations,…