Describes a lesson designed to teach the probabilistic topics of permutation and combinations in a constructivist manner. (ASK)

Presents activities in which students are invited to re-create on their calculator screen images using graphical features of the graphing calculator. (ASK)

Discusses using black body function for radiative heat transfer, which can be used in a real-life application in a number of different topics in A-level and first-year undergraduate mathematical methods courses such as differentiation, solving nonlinear equations, and integration by substitution. (ASK)

Describes in detail several activities designed for students studying dynamics. Incorporates life-related mathematical modeling and practical work. Uses computer technology as a tool. (Contains 15 references.) (ASK)

Presents examples to illustrate that iteration and recursion are useful pedagogical tools that can be used in many areas of mathematics, make models traditionally taught in upper levels accessible in grades 9-14, and provide alternative problem solving approaches less dependent upon ready-made formulas. (Author/MM)

Part of a series exploring how mathematics is used in the workplace. Software developers and statisticians record data of hockey games and players using statistics accessible to middle school students. (MM)

Outlines efforts to create mathematics-related activities for freshman/sophomore level college algebra and statistics classes at Shippensburg (Pennsylvania) University. Shares some of the ways in which these activities were created and adapted. (ASK)

Describes first grade students' mathematical investigation of the number of spots on a cheetah. The exploration of counting and estimation strategies that grew from the investigation gives evidence that mathematicians come in all ages. (ASK)

Uses the chicken problem for sixth grade students to scratch the surface of systems of equations using intuitive approaches. Provides students responses to the problem and suggests similar problems for extensions. (ASK)

Describes a project that utilizes journal writing in the mathematics classroom. Journals are a valuable form of assessment for students and teachers and furnish concrete feedback on a student's understanding of a mathematical concept. (ASK)

Presents a mathematics lesson that focuses on particular connections between geometry and measurement, how change in shape effects the area of the interior region of parallelograms with the same perimeter. (ASK)

Presents activities to supplement the usual diagnostic procedures that middle school math teachers employ at the beginning of the school year to ascertain the math skill levels of their new students. Includes activities related to problem solving, data analysis, estimation, and fractions. (ASK)

Presents a mathematics activity using hand-held technology that can be used with elementary school students. Uses graphing calculators and calculator-based laboratories in this activity. (Contains 11 references.) (ASK)

Analyzes the individual and collective activities of fourth grade students while trying to explain a school fellow's mistake in the use of a geometrical schema for the sunshadows phenomenon. Aims at detecting productive links between context-related argumentation and mathematical modeling as well as discussing their relevance for mathematics…

Uses the available data about the Titanic's passengers to interest students in exploring categorical data and the chi-square distribution. Describes activities incorporated into a statistics class and gives additional resources for collecting information about the Titanic. (ASK)