This document presents information on open learning environments in Adult Basic Education in The Netherlands. It focuses on the role of teacher, tutorial, progress, and evaluation methods. Several task groups address the four dimensions in a learning environment: accommodation, time, infrastructural, and social psychological. Through independent…

Children today are very different from children of even five years ago. More and more children are recognized as having learning difficulties, and their self-esteem is more fragile than ever. Children used to TVs, VCRs, cellular phones, computers, and Gameboys demand high-interest activities rather than the "skill and drill" methods of a decade…

Discusses the importance of experiences with classification and seriation in aiding children to understand the concept of number. (GB)

The derivation of a method to drive the general term of a sequence is presented. The difference sequences and binomial coefficents are used in the derivation. An application of this method is made to solve Polya's problems concerned with dividing space in regions by a given number of planes. (JP)

A game with dice that can be adapted for use at various levels of understanding is presented. (MS)

Evaluated was whether primary level visually handicapped tactile learners could successfully manipulate and discriminate the component parts of an instructional aid to introduce fractional parts of wholes. (DB)

The role of division of whole numbers in problem solving and the implications for teaching division computation are examined. Deleting the teaching of division facts, and obtaining solutions by using multiplication facts, is advocated. (DT)