This article compares the definition of "box plot" as used in the "Australian Curriculum: Mathematics" with other definitions used in the education community; describes the difficulties students experience when dealing with box plots; and discusses the elaboration that is necessary to enable teachers to develop the knowledge necessary to use them…

The term "quantitative literacy" is used in this article to reinforce its importance in catering for reform-based curricula in Australia. The medium chosen for the problems discussed in this paper is the newspaper. The purpose of this article is to tie together traditional views of the importance of problem solving with the current aims of…

Describes a professional development project entitled Learning the Unlikely at Distance Delivered as an Information Technology Enterprise (LUDDITE). Explains three phases of the project with two central concerns: the provision of essential content for teachers of chance and data, and the evaluation of various technologies for delivering the…

Brief biographies of Hypatia, Maria Agnesi, and Emmy Noether are presented. (SD)

A new program for preservice elementary teachers at the University of Tasmania is discussed, with the mathematics and mathematics education components described. Reactions to the improved program have been very positive. (MNS)

Some examples of typical nonrelevant textbook problems on probability are followed by more complex problems pulled from the real world. The resource used in this report is Newsweek magazine; and is used to help demonstrate that from the very beginning, lessons on conditional probability can have relevance. (MP)

The use of microcomputers to aid geometry instruction is emphasized through discussion of a program written in BASIC which provides for experimenting with polynomial curves. The program listing is included. (MP)