Presents strategies teachers have developed to provide an authentic use of mathematics that enhances children's autonomy in managing classroom activities, including recording and using data on attendance and choices for interest centers and using mathematics to distribute snack food and utensils. (MKR)

Presents a lesson combining statistics, algebra, and economics in which students create their own mathematical functions and make inferences from those functions. Students learn about the relationships among profit, revenue, and cost. Includes reproducible student group report form. (MKR)

Describes a number of computer-mediated communications networks designed to support K-12 teachers and teacher education programs. The article is structured around a number of existing strands of educational research. (39 references) (Author/MKR)

Presents a classroom mathematics project for preservice teachers or secondary school students in which students investigate roughness or ruggedness of the boundaries of a state. (MKR)

Analysis of in-class written responses about mathematical concepts and procedures for solving problems of 25 college students enrolled in an intermediate algebra class suggested that writing assignments helped remedial students to think mathematically. An appendix contains samples of writing assignments. (Author/MKR)

Discusses the problem-solving attempts of second-grade students while solving a rate problem. (MKR)

Presents an activity to help students begin to seek patterns and make mathematical predictions by using a counting game. Contains reproducible student worksheets. (MKR)

Because the absence of spatial activities in contemporary textbooks seemingly relegates visual imagery to a nonessential status, this discussion highlights the indispensable role of visual imagery within applied school mathematics learning activities. Included are examples of when imagery is used within students' daily applications and suggestions…

Two methods to facilitate classroom management and initiate student responsibilities are presented. The first describes student responsibilities for making up missed tests or assignments. The second describes a student scorecard to help students keep track of their grades and act as a motivational technique. (MDH)

Suggests the idea of having students and parents sign a statement that identifies the teacher's expectations for the students about discipline and classroom management to improve discipline. Provides an example statement. (MDH)

Presents the Morris Loe Angle Trisection Approximation Method to introduce students to areas of mathematics where approximations are used when exact answers are difficult or impossible to obtain. Examines the accuracy of the method using the laws of sines and cosines and a BASIC computer program that is provided. (MDH)

Discusses research findings that relate to teaching fractions for conceptual understanding. Gives teacher/student dialogues that illustrate the thought processes of students as they form part-whole and improper fraction concepts. (MDH)

Three elementary students with behavioral disorders were trained to use a cognitive "cover, copy, and compare" strategy to learn division facts. Two students increased their rate of correct responding to mastery level, the third student required additional feedback and goal setting, and all three students maintained increased rates of…

Discusses three methods to teach the order of operations to middle school students: (1) asking students to fill in operations in a statement to obtain a given answer; (2) using mnemonics to remember operation order; and (3) having students discover the logic system used by their calculators. (MDH)