This guide is the seventh of a series of seven curriculum guides included in SE 012 723, SE 012 724, and SE 012 725, and concludes the primary school mathematics course (grades one through six in Victorian schools, Australia). It is expected that "a substantial majority of children leaving grade six will have completed Section H. Some…

Tested was a method of learning numeration, addition, and subtraction using measuring operations in place of the more usual counting operations. It is claimed that an approach through "units of measurement" to continuous variables is mathematically more powerful than counting, which leads only to nominal and ordinal variables. Twelve children…

This study investigated the effect of play-like behavior on the learning of elementary arithmetic. Kindergarten children from one school were pretested on addition and subtraction of the numbers zero through five; and eight groups of five subjects were randomly selected from those scoring below the mean. These groups were then randomly assigned to…

This collection of 123 objectives and related evaluation items is for general mathematics in grades 10 through 12. The content has been organized into nine major categories: sets; numbers, numerals, and numeration systems; operations and their properties; measurements; per cents; geometry; probability and statistics; logic; and applications and…

TWENTY-EIGHT PARAPLEGIC, QUADRUPLEGIC, CEREBRAL PALSIED, AND OTHER SEVERELY PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED SECONDARY STUDENTS, PATIENTS IN THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY RANCHO LOS AMIGOS HOSPITAL, WERE INCLUDED IN A STUDY OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AUTOMATED VISUAL PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION. SUBJECTS WERE DIVIDED INTO FOUR MATCHED GROUPS BY READING LEVEL AND…

The relationship between the development of reversible thought and performance in arithmetic equations among children was investigated. Subjects were 86 second grade boys and girls. Two reversibility tasks and 20 addition and subtraction equations were administered. Results indicated significant correlations between the two variables only among…

The effects of musical stimulation on activity and academic performance were studied in 36 retarded children (ages 11-19 years). (Author/DLS)

A demonstration-plus-feedback technique was applied in an attempt to reduce the systematic inversion errors in subtraction in nine learning disabled students (ages 9-11 years). Journal availability: see EC 112 927. (DLS)

The Visual Aural Digit Span and Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test were studied with regard to ability to discriminate low from average achievers in reading and arithmetic skills, as identified by the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. A sample of 78 normal children aged six through nine were administered tests. (Author)

A case is made against the major argument which implies that the use of a calculator for arithmetic problems that can be done by hand will prevent a student from being able to do arithmetic when the calculator is absent. (MN)

Two methods of teaching coin summation to 14 moderately retarded adolescents were compared: one method involved a coin-displacement procedure designed to compensate for retarded persons' attention and retention deficits. (Author/CL)

A week-by-week readiness program for preschool and early primary children. (Editor)

This study was designed to replicate and extend Roberts' (1968) efforts at classifying computational errors. 198 elementary school students were administered an 84-item arithmetic computation test. Eight types of errors were described which led to several tentative generalizations. (Editor/RK)

The article offers an interpretation of "specially designed instruction" in arithmetic computation for learning disabled students which challenges overreliance on paper-and-pencil methodologies, rule-oriented procedures, and traditional sequences. Long division is used as an example of developing conceptual understanding to undergird computation.…