Investigating teaching strategies in mathematics classrooms : a CD-ROM resource enabling teachers to explore teaching strategies in mathematics education

Teaching mathematics has traditionally followed a standard pattern across the world. Students are placed in classrooms where they are seated individually, are required to listen passively and observe the teacher demonstrating mathematical procedure and then s1 end extensive time practicing the newly acquired ski ll s. Generally the content being taught comprises mathematical facts and skills taught sequentially in the order presented by a textbook. Students are then assessed by unseen pencil and paper tests for the purpose of grading and ranking. This cycle is then repeated with another mathematical topic which is viewed by students as discrete from the previous one. The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics offers a new vision of mathematics teaching and learning..

The James Webb Space Telescope Mission

Twenty-six years ago a small committee report, building on earlier studies, expounded a compelling and poetic vision for the future of astronomy, calling for an infrared-optimized space telescope with an aperture of at least $4m$. With the support of their governments in the US, Europe, and Canada, 20,000 people realized that vision as the $6.5m$ James Webb Space Telescope. A generation of astronomers will celebrate their accomplishments for the life of the mission, potentially as long as 20 years, and beyond. This report and the scientific discoveries that follow are extended thank-you notes to the 20,000 team members. The telescope is working perfectly, with much better image quality than expected. In this and accompanying papers, we give a brief history, describe the observatory, outline its objectives and current observing program, and discuss the inventions and people who made it possible. We cite detailed reports on the design and the measured performance on orbit.Comment: Accepted by PASP for the special issue on The James Webb Space Telescope Overview, 29 pages, 4 figure

Blow Up: Exploding Sound and Noise (London to Brighton, 1959-1969)

An exhibition of images, artefacts, sound and video curated by David Toop and Tony Herrington (managing editor of The Wire) in which the development of a noise aesthetic in the UK is traced through the work of artists John Latham and Gustav Metzger, filmmaker Jeff Keen, jazz musicians Joe Harriott and Coleridge Goode, improvisers AMM and John Stevens and sound poets Bob Cobbing and Annea Lockwood. Also an essay (published as a catalogue essay and in The Wire magazine) written by David Toop

Evaluating online mathematics resources: A practical approach for teachers

The authors report on the development of evaluation criteria for online resources and provide practical information about some key websites

Soy-isoflavone-enriched foods and inflammatory biomarkers of cardiovascular disease risk in postmenopausal women: interactions with genotype and equol production.

Isoflavones have beneficial effects on CRP concentrations, but not on other inflammatory biomarkers of cardiovascular disease risk in postmenopausal women, and may improve VCAM-1 in an ERbeta gene polymorphic subgroup