PBS has developed a number of websites for educators, and their PBS Teachers site has received a number of accolades and high praise from diverse quarters. First-time visitors to the site may wish to first use the...

Teaching word problems and methods of solution: a unit concerned with practical approaches to problem solving at the elementary mathematical level. It presents concepts and ideas calculated to encourage educators to...

A curriculum unit with examples of word problems and ways to teach them for the slow to average Algebra I student, with student and teacher reading lists.

A curriculum unit that stresses organized thinking for solving word problems: Knowing the Problem; Making a Plan; Solving Your Problem; Testing Your Solution, with bibliographies for students and teachers. Recommended...

This lecture presented at the "World View in Physics Education 2005" conference identifies differences between what physics instructors expect to be gained from usage of physics equations in the classroom and students'...