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Provides information on resources and activities that mathematics teachers can use. Exercises on the mathematical aspects of a tour by Dave Kaval and Brad Null at every major league ball park in North America; Analysis of the marketing strategy in the design of supermarket stalls.

Describes two mathematical activities that calculate the total number of deliveries made by a letter carrier and the projected price increase of stamps in the United States. Solutions to the mathematical problems.

Offers suggestions for teaching mathematics. Computation of body mass index (BMI); Survey findings on children's allowances; Determination of the kinds of trees to plant.

Presents various information for teaching mathematics. Focus on ratios; Solutions.

Recommends some assignments that mathematics teachers can use with their students. Bar graphs; Gross income of the motion picture `Titanic'; Tap-dancing; Unemployment in Canada.

Presents several clippings from various publications featuring news which can be used by teachers as mathematical problems. Includes Don Gorske's passion for Big Macs which he started eating daily since 1973; Computation on how large funeral bills can be paid; Sample problems and their solutions.

Presents several mathematical problems and solutions. Point system problem; Car speed problem.

Presents several resources that mathematics teachers could use in teaching.

Presents some news which are associated with mathematics. Issuance of vehicle license plates with seven digits in Ontario; Announcement of Pacific Bell on the split of two of California's three original telephone area codes; South Carolina as fourth state in United States for bicycle deaths; Mathematical problems associated with the news.

Presents resources that mathematics teachers can use in teaching mathematics subjects. Secrets of lotto; Problems on probability; Corresponding answers for ech problem.

Presents several interesting topics on mathematics. Information about dog years and cat years; Quick way to figure out if a food derives less than 30 percent of its calories from fat.

Compiles resources sent by readers which mathematics teachers can use for teaching their students. Revenue from bus advertisements; Average speed of flights between Chicago and Hong Kong; Measurement of the wind chill.

Discusses the use of media clips to teach students about mathematics. Drawing of a Venn diagram to identify days and months; Circularity with some undefined word in mathematics; Use of an article from the February 1998 issue of the periodical `The Atlantic Monthly,' to teach students about planets.

Presents newsclips of interest to mathematics teachers. Parking problems in Buffalo, New York; Dispute between police and rally organizers over the actual number of participants at the Day of Action parade; 1 Mathematical questions pertaining to the two events.

Presents news contributions from readers of `Mathematics Teacher' which can serve as resources for teaching mathematics. Includes the construction of two new gardens in New York City's East Village; Explanation of the `big whack' theory on the formation of Earth's moon.

Presents a resource that mathematics teachers can give to their students as an assignment or project. Excerpt from `Team's Model Demonstrates How Evolution Obeys Mathematical Laws,' by Curt Suplee.

Presents entries on mathematical problems which will comprise resources that teachers can use immediately or file away for future use. Mathematical challenges using the graph on the population of Gilbert, Arizona; Challenges using the graph on urban-world population data from 1950 to 1995; World weather problems in April 1997.

This article focuses on the validity of the Slosson Intelligence Test (SIT). The SIT was developed for screening purposes and is intended to be more reliable and valid than group intelligence tests, while requiring significantly less administration time than the more standard individual intelligence tests such as the Stanford-Binet and Wechsker scales. A group of 76 children between the ages of 6 and 13 was administered the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children and SIT by separate examiners without knowledge of previous test results. SIT examiners included special education supervising teachers, a psychiatric social worker, and staff psychologists. A subgroup of 53 students from slow-learning to mildly retarded special classes was also administered the Wide Range Achievement Test.

Investigates the effects of tape-recorded self-instruction cues on the mathematics performance of students with learning disabilities. Programs designed to promote verbally mediated self-control for impulsive children; Effectiveness of the technique relative to alternative teaching methods; Influence of task difficulty levels on instructional routines.

The article cites a study which examines pupillary response and sexual interest. The article presents an experiment that was designed to test whether 10 male and 10 female undergraduate students in psychology at the University of South Carolina would respond differentially to pictures of semi-nude males and Imitates. The students were not informed of the purpose of the experiment. The results indicate a tendency for the male students to dilate more to the semi-nude female pictures and for females to display the opposite pattern. However, for the clothed pictures, the males dilated more to male pictures.