The purpose of this symposium was to provide a forum for the interchange of state of the art mathematics and science education teaching in two Southeast South Dakota National Science Foundation Statewide Systemic Initiative projects. Presentations include: (1) "To Get This Car Moving, We Will Have to Put It in Gear" (Delmar Janke); (2) "Math Change: More Than Pennies, Nickels, and Dimes" (William Tomhave); (3) "When the Night has a Fever, It Cries in the Morning: Weather Folklore in the Science Classroom" (Lana Danielson); (4) "Tablecloth Mathematics: Create, Conjecture, Cost" (Roger Parsons); (5) "Labs: They Aren't Just for Science Anymore" (Deana Daum); (6) "Having Families Involved in Student's Learning Imperative: A Plan for Implementation" (Delmar Janke); (7) "Spatial Reasoning Activities Using Squares and Cubes" (William Tomhave); (8) "Weather Wizards" (Dean Albertson); (9) "The Web for Science Ed" (Robert Wood, Michael Hoadley, and Dale Farland); (10) "The Effect of the Interaction of Lactic Acid and Carbon Dioxide in Post Exercise Skeletal Muscle Cellular Respiration" (James Richardson); (11) "Invitations to Learn Which Are Difficult to Not Accept" (Delmar Janke); (12) "Science, Society, and America's Nuclear Waste" (Gail Westmoreland); (13) "Creek Quest Expedition Organization Plan with Equipment/Supply List" (David Broadwell); (14) "The Effects of Instruction in Heuristics on the Use of Problem Solving Strategies and Problem Solving Performance of Preservice Elementary Education Majors" (Janel Fiksdal); (15) "Teaching Math in an Integrated Environment" (Sheila McQuade); (16) "Plant Tissue Culture-African Violet" (Mark Buechler); (17) "Project-Based Learning-Integrating Science, Communications, Technology, and Social Studies" (Ron Newell); (18) "Eating Your Way Through Mathematics: Integrating Children's Literature and Cooking" (Maurine Richardson, Constance Hoag, and Margaret Miller). (JRH)