A new study challenges the common practice in many classrooms of teaching mathematical concepts by using "real-world," concrete examples. Researchers found that college students who learned a ...

When studying to become a math teacher, many teachers-in-training are taught to use concrete, real world examples to help illustrate mathematical concepts. New research, published in last week's ...

Family paper sculpture, adapted from family therapy, is presented as a way to illustrate and actively draw students into exploration of family systems theory concepts such as membership, subsystems, ...

N. B. MIJINDADI, Integrated Rural Development: Concept and Planning Implications—with examples from Nigeria, Community Development Journal, Vol. 13, No. 1 (January ...