This book contains real-life mathematics problems and is designed to conform to the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' (NCTM) goals as outlined in the NCTM Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics. The problems come from each person's day-to-day experiences in their careers. Persons from various careers represented are…

This paper describes three methods that can be utilized in teaching for meaning in mathematics. These three methods are based on learning theories. Although there may not be consensus of what constitutes meaningful learning in the study of mathematics, there are problems with meaningless mathematics that are widely agreed upon by educators.…

In this instructional guide, a third-level, two-semester mathematics course specifically for the student who plans a career in a vocational field is presented. The course is designed to meet the needs of students with varying mathematical backgrounds and to teach the mathematical skills required by various technical areas. In this practical…

Taguchi methods are methods of product quality improvement that analyze major contributions and how they can be controlled to reduce variability of poor performance. In this approach, knowledge is used to shorten testing. Taguchi methods are concerned with process improvement rather than with process measurement. This manual is designed to be used…

The incenter, orthocenter, and centroid of a triangle are discussed in a sequence which students knowing ratio and proportion can understand. (SD)

The School Mathematics Program (SMP) is criticized for providing the upper 20 percent of the students with insufficient practice on working examples. (SD)

Experiments using soap films illustrate some of the most basic theorems concerning networks in a geometric framework. (SD)

A unit on problems involving large numbers can begin with calculating the amounts of ingredients needed to produce several thousand hamburgers. Other sources of computational problems are described. (SD)

In the activity described here students build mazes, then time fellow students as they "run" the mazes. They then graph the results to determine a learning curve. (SD)

Describes an applied mathematics course which presents the mathematical skills that have the widest applications and uses examples from daily life. The course emphasizes the meaning of numbers, translating word problems from English to mathematics, and a graphical treatment of functions. (GS)

this article presents a way to stimulate the study of some properties of numbers. The number of points on the star to be drawn is predicted using the number of teeth on each wheel, the greatest common factor of those numbers, and the number of teeth in the movable wheel. (Author/KM)

This set of worksheets provides exercises related to making change, spending a fixed amount of money by "buying" items at listed prices, and deciding which of two quantities of coins has greater value. (SD)

Objectives of teaching mathematics to engineering and science students are defined, and the role of the computer, especially the interactive terminal, in achieving these objectives is discussed. (SD)

Using play money, students buy and sell six types of stock certificates at prices determined periodically by tossing three dice; all students participate as investors, brokers, or banker. In addition to gaining practice on computational skills in a motivational game, students study the real stock market concurrently. (SD)