The present research involved gauging preschoolers' learning potential for a key arithmetic concept, the addition-subtraction inverse principle (e.g., 2+1-1=2). Sixty 4- and 5-year-old Taiwanese children from two public preschools serving low- and middle-income families participated in the training experiment. Half were randomly assigned to an…

This study was inspired by a history of student difficulties in calculus, and innovation in response to those difficulties. The goals of the study were fourfold. First, to design a mathlet for students to explore local linearity. Second, to redesign the curriculum of first semester calculus around the use of technology, an emphasis on…

This dissertation involved a series of training sessions where parents from a Title I middle school participated in the learning and practice of Algebra Readiness skills. The project was based on a series of six weekly trainings for parents to learn home-based activities to increase their child's Algebra Readiness. I administered an initial…

The author was asked to develop a list of actions that teachers could take to build students' mathematics abilities. Too many students fail to graduate and fail to pass state assessments as a result of weak mathematics skills. Even many students who do graduate leave high school lacking sufficient understanding of mathematics to pass college…

Many instructors in subjects such as economics are frequently concerned with how to teach technical material to undergraduate students with limited mathematical backgrounds. One method that has proven successful for the authors is to connect theoretically sophisticated material with actual data. This enables students to see how the theory relates…

This textbook presents readings in geometry and the theory of infinitesimals.

This textbook presents principles, ratios and proportions, the circle and measurement of angles, the proportions of figures and the measurement of areas, regular polygons and measurement of the circle, planes and solid angles, polyhedrons, the three round bodies, spherical triangles and spherical polygons, regular polyhedrons, plane and spherical…

The first report of the Metrication Board, published summer 1970, leads Mr. Frost to reflect on the history of weights and measurements and the factors leading to Britain's present course toward decimalisation and metrication, with its implications for adult education. (Editor/NL)