The authors describe a hands-on program that they developed after their attendance at the NCTM Algebra Academy. The article explains how to use literature to capture youngsters' attention and engage them in interactive mathematical activities.

In K-12 classrooms, as well as on the college and university level, the incorporation of digital games has played a vital role in the educational system. While introducing teachers to new fields, these digital games have been designed and implemented for the classroom and have shown positive results at a variety of educational levels. Cases on…

Having young readers manipulate objects to correspond to the characters and actions in a text greatly enhances comprehension as measured by both recall and inference tests. As a step toward classroom implementation, we applied this manipulation strategy in small (three-child) reading groups. For successive critical sentences, one child would read…

The increased popularity of lesson study in the United States--an approach to professional development initiated in Japan more than a century ago--is due in large part to findings from the 1995 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) video study and the subsequent book, "The Teaching Gap" (Stigler and Hiebert 1999). "Lesson…

The Japanese, Chinese, and Russian abaci are described. Policies of the Japanese Education Ministry with regard to calculation are briefly discussed. (SD)

This booklet was designed to aid parents in making things at home to develop their newborn to 2-year-old children's skills. Suggested are easy-to-make visual stimuli for infants up to 6 weeks of age and 6 weeks to 3 months of age. For the latter, tactile stimuli also are considered. For infants 3 to 6 months of age, objects providing visual,…

Piaget's conception of cognitive development as the development of a set of skills resulting from interaction with the environment has had a great effect on contemporary educational theory and spurred the Educational Testing Service (ETS) to develop a set of written exercises based on this concept. Piaget's emphasis, however, was on concrete…

Free teaching materials which will be available at least until 1973, which have been evaluated by accredited teachers, and which have direct bearing on curriculum are listed in this catalog. Individual items are grouped under appropriate subject headings by title or source, and a description of the item is included. In addition, the approximate…

Detailed instructions are given for the construction of a line segment of length cube root of two. A proof is also given. (MP)

Some questions about the relevance of the philosophy of mathematics to mathematics teaching and to early mathematics learning are discussed. Books by Lakatos, Davis and Hersh, and Kitcher are referred to extensively, with comments on a variety of instructional practices. (MNS)

Learning theories and evidence from research and classroom practice support use of manipulative materials to help children learn and understand mathematics. Well-chosen and properly used manipulatives enhance children's learning, generate interest, relieve boredom, and promote problem-solving and computational skills. (JN)

There are numerous teaching suggestions to offer for guiding pupils to achieve more optimally in mathematics. There is, however, a problem involved in writing about the implementation of selected teaching suggestions: there needs to be a readiness of learning prior to implementing any teaching suggestion. If pupils cannot benefit from the teaching…

Most primary teachers struggle to convey the proper values of coins with ineffective instructional materials. This study aimed to create a more developmentally appropriate money model for students in grades K-3. Instruction included concrete and visual money models. The paper also presents a proportional model of money and creates a visual…

Because both wooden and plastic pegboards were being used to assess GATB aptitude manual dexterity (M), it was decided to compare the scores obtained on the two different types of boards. Results of the study indicate that those students who were tested using the wooden boards performed significantly better than did students tested on the plastic…