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Peer reviewedPagni, David L.; Shultz, Harris S. – Mathematics Teacher, 1999
Presents an extension of a Japanese mathematics lesson involving the area of a triangle and introduces concepts from trigonometry. (ASK)
Descriptors: Area, Geometric Concepts, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewedShaw, Kenneth L.; Aspinwall, Leslie – Mathematics Teacher, 1999
Shares some explorations of Fibonacci sequences with a special focus on problem-solving and posing processes. (ASK)
Descriptors: Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction, Number Concepts, Problem Solving
Peer reviewedHooley, Donald E. – Mathematics Teacher, 1999
Offers a real problem for students with younger siblings that uses a board game and illustrates the use of modeling and simulation. (ASK)
Descriptors: Educational Games, Mathematical Models, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewedMarks, Daniel – Mathematics Teacher, 1999
Presents an activity in which the subject is the identity of the team in the greatest jeopardy of becoming the big loser in a basketball tournament. Explores several facts about the big loser, offering them in a hierarchy appropriate for creating various short- and long-term projects for a high school mathematics class. (ASK)
Descriptors: Basketball, High Schools, Mathematical Models, Mathematics Activities
Peer reviewedBisbee, Gregory D.; Conway, David M. – Mathematics Teacher, 1999
Provides examples of the uses of proportions from the fields of mathematics and science. (ASK)
Descriptors: Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction, Ratios (Mathematics), Science Education
Peer reviewedPandolfini, Thomas J. Jr.; Alfano, Joseph L. – Mathematics Teacher, 1999
Illustrates how the Academy Awards can provide an excellent motivational tool in teaching probability and statistics and presents related activities. (ASK)
Descriptors: Film Industry, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction, Probability
Peer reviewedCoughlin, Robert S. Jr. – Mathematics Teacher, 1999
Students have difficulty associating equations of vertical and horizontal lines with their respective graphs. Presents an activity using a TI-82 graphing calculator to eliminate this confusion and to strengthen students' understanding. (ASK)
Descriptors: Graphing Calculators, Graphs, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewedCox, Pam; Bridges, Linda – Mathematics Teacher, 1999
Provides a cooperative-learning activity in which students calculate the horsepower of an individual by collecting and analyzing data. (ASK)
Descriptors: Algebra, Data Processing, Group Activities, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewedLeikin, Roza; Zaslavsky, Orit – Mathematics Teacher, 1999
Discusses cooperative learning and describes a method of implementing a cooperative-learning setting called Exchange of Knowledge. Contains 28 references. (ASK)
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedMurphy, Tricia – Mathematics Teacher, 1999
Describes teacher and student experiences in a college algebra course at a high school when assessment practices changed. (ASK)
Descriptors: Algebra, College Mathematics, High Schools, Mathematics Activities
Peer reviewedSmith, John P. III – Mathematics Teacher, 1999
Discusses important lessons on the mathematics of manufacturing and how curriculum content and teaching can prepare students for working. Features concepts such as the importance of spatial and geometric reasoning, problem solving, numbers and computation, and measurement. (ASK)
Descriptors: Computation, Education Work Relationship, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Curriculum
Peer reviewedLornell, Randi; Westerberg, Judy – Mathematics Teacher, 1999
Features a brief description of fractals and their characteristics, some example activities, and an argument for including fractals in the mathematics curriculum. (ASK)
Descriptors: Fractals, Geometry, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Curriculum
Peer reviewedQuinn, Robert J.; Tomlinson, Stephen – Mathematics Teacher, 1999
Features activities for advanced second-year algebra students in grades 11 and 12. Introduces three random variables and considers an empirical and theoretical probability for each. Uses coins, regular dice, decahedral dice, and calculators. (ASK)
Descriptors: Algebra, Calculators, Estimation (Mathematics), Grade 11
Peer reviewedArtzt, Alice F. – Mathematics Teacher, 1999
In order for teachers to use cooperative-learning strategies effectively, they must become sensitized to the many complexities of the technique. Explains how a mathematics teacher-education class can engage pre-service and in-service teachers in a cooperative-learning activity that can be used both as a model and as a subject for reflection and…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Peer reviewedShultz, Harris S. – Mathematics Teacher, 1999
Presents the general postage-stamp problem on Diophantine equations. Discusses ways to uncover all solutions to the problem. (ASK)
Descriptors: Calculators, Equations (Mathematics), High Schools, Mathematics Activities
