Four games modelled on television quiz shows are described. The games are useful for providing students with drill and practice on basic concepts and operations. (SD)

Results show that student differences in time-on-task to learn to criterion are alterable and can be minimized over a sequence of learning units given appropriate adaptive learning strategies. (Author/DEP)

The informal arithmetic inventory, an informal diagnostic technique for use with elementary age students, indicates a child's specific weaknesses in arithmetic, such as inadequate concept development, poor computational skills, or inability to apply skills in a practical problem solving situation. (SBH)

Described is a multiplication unit for intermediate aged emotionally disturbed boys which used citizen band radio terms and a drawing of a road to record individual progress. (CL)

To investigate the development of function concepts and their relation to mathematical and logical abilities typically acquired during the age period of five to seven years, children were tested on nonnumerical function tasks, numerical tasks, and aspects of logical reasoning. (PCB)

Described is a model for teaching improper fractions and mixed numbers and some activities for working with them at the precomputational level. (PK)

This article is reprinted from the February 1954 issue of the "Arithmetic Teacher." It is a succinct and perceptive analysis of mathematics education for children during the first half of this century. (MNS)

The effects of problem size on judgments of commutativity by 51 moderately and mildly retarded students were investigated. Results indicated that many retarded students who are given computational practice recognize the general principle that addend order does not affect the sum. (Author/DB)

Children's solutions to simple word problems requiring addition or subtraction skills develop through four stages: (1) modeling with objects; (2) utilization of both modeling and counting strategies; (3) reliance on counting strategies; and (4) reliance on number facts. The current primary mathematics curriculum fails to capitilize on rich…

Attainments and curriculum appropriateness in reading and math were examined for 24 physically disabled elementary pupils. In general, evidence supported the effectiveness of classroom teaching in reading although doubts were raised about number work. Teachers' positive outlooks regarding their pupils contrasted with their negative evaluation of…

Analysis of reciprocal peer tutoring combined with group reinforcement contingencies on the arithmetic performance of 12 underachieving fifth-graders indicated that the intervention increased the students' arithmetic performance to a level indistinguishable from their classmates during treatment and 12-week follow-up. Students also increased peer…

Provides instructions and worksheets for activities on: (1) sorting sets (grades K-one); (2) telling place values of two-/three-digit numbers (grades two-four); (3) recognizing multiplication/division facts (grades four-six); and (4) computing problems that contain multiples of 10, place value problems, and subtraction problems with many zeros…

Discusses how the decimal monetary system was created, considering colonial currency, continental currency, money under the Articles of Confederation, and money under the Constitution. Also discusses how money is taught in arithmetic textbooks during these times. (JN)

Describes and evaluates a student-administered group-oriented contingency technique for improving the arithmetic performance of grade school children. (KH)

We deal with the study of the senses and the meanings generated in the representation of the unknowns in the resolution of word problems involving two unknown quantities. The discussed cases show the difficulties that the students beginning the algebra learning have to deal with when using the equality between "unknown things". For them,…