A formula comparable to Pick's formula for area of a polygonal region on a geoboard is presented for the situation in which the standard unit is an equilateral triangle instead of a square. (JP)

Describes a laboratory course in Physical Geology designed to encourage students to ask their own questions and to develop and test their own answers. The essence of this approach lies in providing a minimum of preconditioning before the exercises. (MLH)

The learning discovery of youngsters is a do-it-yourself teaching method for clerical, administrative, and accountant trainees at the Bankside House headquarters of the Central Electricity Generating Board's South Eastern Region, London. (Author)

Condensed from "The Instructor, Volume 78 (December 1968), 64-65.

The calculator is used to investigate properties and characteristics of certain unary operations. These include how a number is related to the number resulting from a unary operation and the result of two unary operations. A discussion of the calculator algorithm to accomplish a series of unary operations is given. Record sheets to summarize…

The use of photography as an evaluation and research tool is discussed, with an emphasis on an evaluative study of the ESSENCE environmental science curriculum project. The camera was used in site-visits in an attempt to portray the workings of the project and to convey a meaningful understanding of the curriculum as it was actually used in the…

A four-part heuristic model seeks to enhance teacher and student-writer awareness of the significance of the self as writer. The questions in the heuristic examine the relationships between the self and the self as writer, between the self and the subject matter, between the self and the audience, and between the self and the form of the…

A teaching technique that leads to auditory conceptualization--the ability to determine the number and order of sounds embedded within syllables--shows promise of measurably improving the reading proficiency of children of all ability levels. Based on C. and P. Lindamood's published technique, "Auditory Discrimination in Depth," the…

ADVOCATED ARE RESEARCH IN SCIENCE TEACHING AND CHANGES IN EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES WHICH WILL PROMOTE THE RECRUITMENT OF ABLE SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS INTO CAREERS IN SCIENCE. PART 1 OF THE PAPER DEVELOPS SUPPORT FOR THE ASSERTION THAT THE IMMEDIATE EFFECTS OF CERTAIN CLASSROOM PRACTICES ARE REINFORCING TO THE STUDENT AND TEACHER ALIKE, WHILE THEIR…

Principles of mechanics and simple machines were taught to 14 ninth-grade general science classes. Three treatments were used: (1) an Expository-Deductive program in which the subject reads the statement and explanation of a principle before working with example frames illustrating that principle; (2) a Discovery-Inductive program in which the…

In this study, which involved 87 freshman English students at Brigham Young University, the variety of practice items and the strategy of Practice (convergent or divergent) were systematically varied, in order to assess their effects on a rule-finding task. The task was presented in an expository fashion, using both rules and practice, and in a…

This 19-page workbook presents the elementary student with topological concepts through sequences of pictures with related questions. Generally the questions ask, "How are the pictures different?" and "How are they the same?" Several topological concepts are presented in this manner: connectivity, number of holes, closed and open curves, networks,…

Teaching reading should not be a matter of transmitting stored information, concepts, and patterns of thinking into the learner's head; rather, it should be a way of working with children to facilitate the acquisition of information and the creation of meaningful ideas about the world in which they live. Teachers should examine certain questions…