Describes equipment, developed by the Danish teacher-therapist Lilli Nielsen, that was used with a 3-year-old child with blindness who was showing no sign of independent spontaneous movement while at nursery school. Explains the use of a resonance board and a Little Room, equipped with a variety of interesting objects. (Author/CR)

Describes strategies to address the organization problems of students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Outlines the general organization problems of students with ADHD, presents a method for assessing organization deficits, and provides a case example illustrating how to write effective objectives for homework assignments. (CR)

A study at Potchefstroom University (South Africa) over two academic years investigated changes in study skills and strategies during the first year of university study, and their relationship to academic achievement. Gains in scores on the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory, administered to 306 introductory chemistry students and 201…

Presents several new rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) songs. Claims that the songs may be used in both academic and therapeutic settings as a humorous way to address cognitive distortions or irrational beliefs. Reports that students and clients have responded favorably to these songs. (RJM)

Tips for running a successful archery program include buying the right equipment, setting up an archery range, and helping campers overcome common mistakes when shooting. Includes 10 games that help campers develop archery skills, and a checklist of archery equipment. (LP)

Describes Subject-Attitude-Development (SAD) mapping, a technique for helping developmental reading students focus on information relevant to an author's thesis and recognize relationships between the thesis, main ideas, and supporting details. Discusses strategies for implementing SAD maps and student reactions to the technique. Includes sample…

Examined evidence for transitions in first and second graders' analogical reasoning, over a six-month period. Found strong evidence for bimodality in test performance frequency distributions and weaker evidence for inaccessibility in frequency distributions. Transitional subjects showed a temporary increase of inconsistent solution behavior and…

Describes the Engineering Link Project for Year 11 students that might have an interest in engineering. It is a three-day course organized by teachers and conducted by engineers to give students the opportunity to test materials, design, construct, and try their own solutions to an engineering problem. (AIM)

A study trained 10 5-year-old typical children, 11 5-year-old gifted children, and 11 7-year-old typical children on strategy use. Several differences among groups were found, generally favoring the gifted children in terms of performance and maintenance of strategies. In addition, the gifted children seemed to use categorization strategies…

Discusses a problem that appeared in the September, 1999 issue of this journal and presents solutions from students in grades 2-6. The question involved using colored cubes rearranged to make different stacked towers. (KHR)

Describes how 4th grade students thought like mathematicians and illustrates their thinking through classroom vignettes. (KHR)

Illustrates ways of using algebra tiles to give students a visual model of competing squares that appear in algebra as well as in higher mathematics. Such visual representations give substance to the symbolic manipulation and give students who do not learn symbolically a way of understanding the underlying concepts of completing the square. (KHR)

Explores the five multiplication techniques found in the 12th century Lilavati by Bhaskara, which appear again in the 1494 Summa by Pacioli. Includes a student worksheet. (KHR)

Investigated the metacognitive development of a group of students in a course aiming to develop deep approaches and conceptual understanding. Found considerable diversity in the approaches used by students, and also in the degrees to which those not initially using a conceptual (deep) approach were able to develop this approach. (EV)

Reports on a study designed to build instructional software to improve estimation, reasoning, and problem solving skills using an animation-based tutor for algebra word problems. Concludes that estimation and the solution of simpler problems (i.e., decomposition) are effective strategies. (Author/MM)