Results of a study concerning the preservice education of junior and senior high school teachers indicate that, in the institutions surveyed, the area of applications is given the least recognition in mathematics requirements. (MN)

Suggestions for familiarizing elementary teachers with the use of the metric system are given. These include a "stair-steps" method of converting units within the metric system and estimation and measurement activities using familiar everyday objects. (MN)

The use of Piaget's Displacement Volume task is shown to be a reasonably good indicator of early formal reasoning. A paper-and-pencil task is also shown effective in measuring the same stage of reasoning. (MN)

The authors derive distance formulas in two-and-three-dimensional coordinate geometry utilizing the concept of similar triangles and the Pythagorean theorem. (MN)

A program utilizing minicalculators in a mathematics class at the eighth grade level is described. The recommendation is made that the utilization of calculators not exceed one experience per week. (MN)

The results of a poll of high school algebra students concerning their perception of what constitutes a good mathematics teacher are given. Many of the students felt that a good mathematics teacher is one who takes into account a student's learning difficulties. (MN)

A model is described that can be used to increase minority participation in the sciences and involves the cooperation of the business-industrial complex, higher education in the historically Black colleges and the government. (MN)

A study is presented which supports the contention that planned exposure to a greater number of stimuli will affect achievement of seven-, eight-, and nine-year-olds. (MN)

The author reviews pertinent studies conducted between 1917 and 1973 in which the introspective-retrospective technique of data gathering was employed in determining the mental processes of children in arithmetical reasoning and the difficulties encountered. (MN)

The results of this study of pre-service elementary teachers show that the majority of teachers studied preferred to use partition as opposed to measurement division word problems, were able to distinguish between the two, and actually used partition to introduce division of whole numbers. (MN)

The authors develop some necessary considerations for evaluating mathematical games as well as provide some examples of quality games. (MN)

An activity is presented which involves making a stadia tube from a cardboard mailing tube and using it to measure horizontal and vertical distances using the properties of similar triangles. (MN)

Activities are suggested which enable children to experience in a concrete manner the basics of linear measurement and estimation in the metric system. (MN)

Sequences resulting from variations of the conditions of the original Fibonacci problem are investigated. (MN)

Compiling resource units is suggested as a means of involving prospective high school mathematics teachers in the various activities associated with mathematics teaching. A resource unit is a collection of elements used in teaching a particular topic and includes: outlines, objectives, activities, strategies, audio-visual aids, test items, and…