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TITLE	Vol.Issue#	Date	pg#
3-D Model Puzzle	Spec Ed	1998	42
3-D Tic-Tac-Toe in Two Dimensions	Spec Ed	2000	58
A Favorite Problem	12.4	June 1988	6,7,10,12,13,23
A Multiplication Mistake Gives the Right Answer: An Investigation for Middle School Students	29.1	Sept 2004	41–42
A New Look at Legs Problems	29.2	Dec 2004	46–48
A New Way to Think about Candy	19.1	Sept 1994	34-35
A Nonroutine Problem Involving Measurement	22.3	Mar 1998	36–37
A Problem Solving Nugget	23.2	Dec 1998	54
A Square Peg in a Round Hole: Courage in Problem Solving	25.2	Dec 2000	38–40
A Twist on the Estimating Jar	29.4	June 2005	45–46
An Investigation—Consecutive Sums	17.1	Sept 1992	36-37
An Unsolved Problem for the Classroom	21.1	Sept 1996	29
Aquaville: A Milk Carton Project Involving Standard Liquid Measurement	13.1	Sept 1988	38-39
Back Again with K and J	16.1	Sept 1991	20
Bean Boxes	13.3	Mar 1989	31-32
Bean Boxes Revisited	13.4	June 1989	38
Ben Franklin’s 8 x 8 Magic Square	27.1	Sept 2002	51–52
Birthday Candles	19.4	June 1995	32-34
Buying Power	23.4	June 1999	50–51, 52
Capturing Their Attention	29.3	Mar 2005	36–37
Child-Generated Alternatives to Problem Solving in Arithmetic	15.1	Sept 1990	25-26
Circle Books, the Unfolding Story	Spec Ed	1999	50
CMC Problem Solving Activities	23.1	Sept 1998	55
CMC Salutes Student Problem Solvers	24.3	Mar 2000	59–60
CMC Salutes Student Problem Solvers	24.4	June 2000	59–60
CMC Salutes Student Problem Solvers	25.1	Sept 2000	56
CMC Salutes Student Problem Solvers	26.4	June 2002	59–60
CMC Salutes Student Problem Solvers	28.2	Dec 2003	60
CMC Salutes Student Problem Solvers	29.2	Dec 2004	58–59
CMC Salutes Student Problem Solvers	29.3	Mar 2005	59
CMC Salutes Student Problem Solvers	30.1	Sept 2005	55
CMC Salutes Student Problem Solvers	31.1	Sept 2006	54–55
CMC Salutes Student Problem Solvers: Tiling a Rectangle	29.4	June 2005	59
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities	20.3	Mar 1996	60
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Alphametic Problems	23.3	Mar 1999	60
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Animal Dice Pattern	14.3	Mar 1990	43
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Area Codes	18.2	Dec 1993	59–60
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Birthday Candles	19.4	June 1995	56
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Broken Calculator	16.2	Dec 1991	58
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Brownies	30.3	Mar 2006	60
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Build It!	16.3	Mar 1992	56
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Buying Cookies	28.3	Mar 2004	59–60
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Calendar Patterns	15.2	Dec 1990	49
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Collecting Rocks	15.1	Sept 1990	54
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Color Logic	15.4	June 1991	58
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Colored Cubes	21.2	Dec 1996	59
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Colored Platonics	21.2	Dec 1996	59-60
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Crazy Dice Puzzle	25.1	Sept 2000	55
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Creating "Genuine Math" Questions	18.1	Sept 1993	55
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Cutting Cake	28.1	Sept 2003	57
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Decreasing Integers	28.3	Mar 2004	60
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Digits Reversed	30.4	June 2006	60
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Distance-Rate-Time	29.3	Mar 2005	58
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Divide and Conquer	14.4	June 1990	57
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Dress Yourself	18.3	Mar 1994	57
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Evaluate the Expression	26.2	Dec 2001	60
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Evaluation Trivia	13.3	Mar 1989	30
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Exploring Boxes	16.1	Sept 1991	54
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Exploring Hexagons	16.3	Mar 1992	56, 57
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Fill It Up	19.4	June 1995	56, 59
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Find a pattern	16.2	Dec 1991	58
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Folding Paper	15.2	Dec 1990	48
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Friday the 13th	14.2	Dec 1989	16
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Funky Center Prizes	28.1	Sept 2003	57
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Funky Fun Center Prizes	27.4	June 2003	57
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Go For It	16.1	Sept 1991	54
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Go For the Gold	16.4	June 1992	57
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Grid Pattern	29.3	Mar 2005	57
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Guess My Number	15.4	June 1991	57
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Holiday Problems 1995	19.2	Dec 1994	58
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: How Big?	18.4	June 1994	59
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: How Long is the Crease?	23.4	June 1999	58
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: How Many at Our School?	18.2	Dec 1993	59
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: How Many Blocks?	15.1	Sept 1990	55
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: How Many Buttons?	23.2	Dec 1998	59
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: How Many Children?	23.3	Mar 1999	59
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: How Many Cubes?	14.4	June 1990	56
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: How Many Ways?	18.4	June 1994	59
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Instant Millionaire!	13.4	June 1989	47
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Inventing Coins	14.2	Dec 1989	14
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Knight's Tour	26.4	June 2002	59
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Librarian's Dilemma	18.2	Dec 1993	59
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Logic Clues for Puzzles	18.3	Mar 1994	57
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Logic Problems	18.3	Mar 1994	57–58
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Make Ten or More	29.1	Sept 2004	54
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Making Money	15.3	Mar 1991	56
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Map Coloring Problem	22.3	Mar 1998	60
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Math Word Challenge	27.1	Sept 2002	55
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Mathematician Survivor	29.4	June 2005	58
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Mathematized Geography	18.1	Sept 1993	55
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Measuring Your Desk	18.4	June 1994	59
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: My 20¢ Creature	13.3	Mar 1989	28
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Mystery Graphs	16.2	Dec 1991	58, 59
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Nested Squares	17.1	Sept 1992	53-54
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Network Lottery	25.2	Dec 2000	58
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Non-Wimpy Sequences	15.2	Dec 1990	50
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Number Pals	14.2	Dec 1989	15
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Other Problem Solving Activities	22.4	June 1998	58
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Palindromes	27.2	Dec 2002	60
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Paths	29.1	Sept 2004	55
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Pattern Block Designs	14.1	Sept 1989	49
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Patterned Egg Puzzles	22.3	Mar 1998	59
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Patterns and More Patterns	17.1	Sept 1992	53
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Pentominoes Puzzle	14.1	Sept 1989	51
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Perfect or Not?	15.1	Sept 1990	56
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Playing Checkers	29.2	Dec 2004	56
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Poetical Math	16.3	Mar 1992	56
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Roll and I Win!	14.3	Mar 1990	44
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Shape Collage	18.1	Sept 1993	55
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Square Triangles, Part 1	21.2	Dec 1996	58
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Square Triangles, Part 2	21.2	Dec 1996	58-59
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Swirling Colors	16.4	June 1992	57
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Take a Number	29.3	Mar 2005	57–58
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: The Grand Total	14.1	Sept 1989	50
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: The Photographer	16.4	June 1992	57
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: The Treasure Hunt	13.4	June 1989	45
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Three Throw	14.3	Mar 1990	45
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Tiling a Rectangle	29.2	Dec 2004	57
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Toxic Troubles	15.3	Mar 1991	57
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Tricky Triangle Patterns	27.2	Dec 2002	60
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Until We Meet Again	19.1	Sept 1994	54
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Ups and Downs	16.1	Sept 1991	54-55
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Vanity Plates	17.1	Sept 1992	53
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Wanted: $1.00 Words	13.3	Mar 1989	29
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Water Level	15.3	Mar 1991	56
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: What Is a Problem?	30.1	Sept 2005	53
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: What's My Number?	23.2	Dec 1998	60
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Which Option?	19.4	June 1995	57
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Yogurt Shop	15.4	June 1991	56
Conceptual Understanding and Problem Solving in Mathematics—An Action Research Project	32.2	Dec 2007	29–32
Connecting Division’s Many Pieces	Spec Ed	2004	24–27
Constructing Images of Patterns Created in a Two-Dimensional Coordinate System	16.2	Dec 1991	37-41
Crazy Dice Puzzle	25.1	Sept 2000	46, 49
Dart Boards	10.4	Dec 1985	6
Defying the Norm	25.4	June 2001	38–39
Drawings to Solve Non-routine Problems	19.1	Sept 1994	31
Elementary Notions: Discussions and Discoveries	Spec Ed	1999	21
Encouraging Young Children to Solve Problems Independently	29.1	Sept 2004	37–40
Evaluating Progress in Problem Solving	14.2	Dec 1989	4-6
Exploring Mathematical Problem Solving Using Cuisenaire Rods	16.1	Sept 1991	18-19
Fast Food Activity	Spec Ed	1991	8-9
Follow the Directions	28.3	Mar 2004	50
Forget the Strike—Here Comes Fantasy Baseball	19.3	Mar 1995	37
Four in a Row	Spec Ed	2004	47–48
Four-Color Map Problem	27.4	June 2003	46
From Puzzle to Proof	Spec Ed	1999	55–58
From the Editor’s Desk: Mathematical Reasoning	27.1	Sept 2002	2
Generalizing the Painted Cube Problem Using Algebra	Spec Ed	2000	56–57
Giving the Gifts	Spec Ed	2000	29–30, 33
Going Greek: Employing Socratic Methods in the Mathematics Classroom	31.2	Dec 2006	30–31
Gourmet Problem Solving	19.1	Sept 1994	48-49
Growing Like a Weed...a Banana?	Spec Ed	1991	29
Hands-on Chocolate Patterns	29.1	Sept 2004	49–50
How Many Ways are There to Count to...	16.1	Sept 1991	21
How Many Ways to Make Fifty-six Cents?	28.2	Dec 2003	56–57
Hughes K-12 Education Program	21.2	Dec 1996	20
Introducing CMC Student Problem Solving Activities	13.3	Mar 1989	27
J and K Discover When a Cube is Not a Cube	17.2	Dec 1992	28-29
J and K Find that Cubes are Cubes (Usually)	17.3	Mar 1993	32-33
J and K: Kevin's Big Discovery	18.3	Mar 1994	28–29
J and K: To Feast or Not to Feast	18.2	Dec 1993	29
J and K: What in the World is a Chicbit?	20.1	Sept 1995	44-45
J Has the Answer for K	16.2	Dec 1991	28-29
Learning Mathematics in Contest	13.2	Dec 1988	4-5
Letter to the Editor	25.3	Mar 2001	59
Math Education Month Activities	16.3	Mar 1992	29-31
Math Education Month Activities	17.3	Mar 1993	29-31
Math Education Month Activities	18.3	Mar 1994	29–31
Math Education Month Activities	19.3	Mar 1995	29-31
Math Education Month Activities	20.3	Mar 1996	29-31
Math Education Month Activities	21.3	Mar 1997	29-31
Math Education Month Activities	22.3	Mar 1998	29–31
Math Education Month Activities	23.3	Mar 1999	29, 30–31
Math Education Month Activities	24.3	Mar 2000	29–31
Math Education Month Activities	25.3	Mar 2001	29–31
Math Education Month Activities	26.3	Mar 2002	29–31
Math Education Month Activities	27.3	Mar 2003	29–31
Math Education Month Activities	28.3	Mar 2004	2931
Math Education Month Activities	29.3	Mar 2005	29–31
Math Education Month Activities	30.3	Mar 2006	30–31
Math Education Month Activities	31.3	Mar 2007	29–31
Math Education Month Activities	32.3	Mar 2008	29–31
Math "FAX"	19.3	Mar 1995	15
Math-Art Ideas: Picnic on Planet Antrop	10.4	Dec 1985	7
Mathematical Adventures with Mitsumasa Anno	32.2	Dec 2007	24–25
Mathematics Contests on the Internet	26.1	Sept 2001	13
Mathematics—It’s a Daily Thing	Spec Ed	1998	60, 62
Mouse Count	29.1	Sept 2004	47–49
My Favorite Problem: The Four Fours	23.2	Dec 1998	31
Nonroutine Problems in Geometry	21.4	June 1997	41-42
Nonroutine Problems Involving Algebra	23.3	Mar 1999	26–27
Nugget Exchange: A "Perfect" Coincidence!	22.3	Mar 1998	25
Nugget Exchange: Pizza Parlor Seating Arrangement	25.1	Sept 2000	43
Nugget Exchange: Q-Tip Puzzle	19.1	Sept 1994	43
Nugget Exchange: Solving Calendar Problems	21.2	Dec 1996	39
Nugget Exchange: The Telephone Number Problem	20.4	June 1996	45
Number Arranging	12.4	June 1988	29
Number Patterns	11.2	Sept 1986	8-9
Number Puzzles	10.4	Dec 1985	17
Number Sense Practice	27.2	Dec 2002	50–51
Open-Ended Problems for Primary Grade Children: How to Begin	Spec Ed	1994	36-37
Open-response Problem Set	19.1	Sept 1994	30
Parent Involvement and Awareness: Why Teach Problem Solving	31.4	June 2007	15–16
Party Trays and Treats	29.4	June 2005	47–48, 50–51
Path Puzzle	25.1	Sept 2000	45–46, 47–48
Percentage Snap	29.2	Dec 2004	50
Pet Parade: A Lesson in Perseverance	21.4	June 1997	32-33
Petals around the Rose	Spec Ed	1999	29
Pictograms	12.2	Dec 1987	24
Polya’s Problem	29.1	Sept 2004	43–45
Posing Open-Ended Questions with Food!	23.2	Dec 1998	31
Primary Open-Ended Problems	18.2	Dec 1993	30–31
Problem Box	12.1	Sept 1987	38
Problem Box	12.2	Dec 1987	18
Problem Solving Activities	32.1	Sept 2007	43–44
Problem Solving "If That Is the Answer, What's the Problem?"	25.2	Dec 2000	33–34
Problem Solving: Looking Back and Looking Ahead	13.1	Sept 1988	5
Problem Solving Made Easy	11.4	Mar 1987	32
Problem Solving Nuggets	23.2	Dec 1998	37
Problem Solving Nuggets	23.3	Mar 1999	27
Problem Solving Nuggets	Spec Ed	1998	13
Problem Solving Resources	32.1	Sept 2007	44–45, 51
Problem Solving Strategies	25.2	Dec 2000	58–60
Problem Solving Tips	23.2	Dec 1998	33
Problems With a Purpose	11.5	June 1987	5
Profitable Pizza	15.4	June 1991	53,55
Pursuing Mathematical Facts	10.4	Dec 1985	4
Read Carefully...And Don’t Assume Too Much	12.1	Sept 1987	14-15
Recycling a Problem: Animal Legs	21.1	Sept 1996	26-28
Rich Problems for Grades 4–8	31.2	Dec 2006	41–43
Seizing Mathematical Opportunities with Calculators	16.2	Dec 1991	32-33
Show and Tell	13.2	Dec 1988	26-28
Solving Word Problems: An Organizational Tool	25.4	June 2001	33–34
Special Prime Numbers	28.2	Dec 2003	40
Squares from Rectangles	Spec Ed	1998	46–47, 49–50
Stockings for All!	26.2	Dec 2001	42–43
Strategies for Problem Solving	10.4	Dec 1985	5
Strawberries, Sets, and Subsets	12.2	Dec 1987	26-27
Student Problem Solutions, Grades 9–12	23.3	Mar 1999	60
Student Problem Solving Activities	21.1	Sept 1996	37
Tales of Gothonia	14.2	Dec 1989	25-26
Teachers as Problem Solvers	22.3	Mar 1998	25
Teaching Arithmetic via Problem Solving	15.1	Sept 1990	4-5
Teaching Problem Solving Skills with the Computer	18.3	Mar 1994	21
Tennis League Scores	25.1	Sept 2000	41
The Math Room Cartoon	17.1	Sept 1992	35
The Pencil Problem	Spec Ed	1999	20–21
The Pet Store and Mom’s Trail Mix: Similar Problems that Assess Proportional Reasoning	28.1	Sept 2003	38–40
The Problem of Four Choices	17.1	Sept 1992	47, 49
The Role of Technology in Solving Nonroutine Problems	21.3	Mar 1997	36-38
The Rule of Four	29.1	Sept 2004	51–53
The Stair-Master Marathon	23.2	Dec 1998	35
The True-False Test	12.2	Dec 1987	41
The Ultimate Math League	19.2	Dec 1994	55-57
Thoughts on How Many Snails?	18.1	Sept 1993	43
To Find a Husband	13.3	Mar 1989	47
Tools for Creating and Extending Word Problems	13.3	Mar 1989	33
Toothpick Squares and Triangles	Spec Ed	1989	8, 10-11
Tri Alpha Bits	Spec Ed	1989	23, 25
Tri-Add	12.4	June 1988	31
Tsoro Yematatu	Spec Ed	2004	28
Two Knight’s Tour Problems	26.4	June 2002	52, 54
Two Nonroutine Problems Involving the Golden Mean	22.4	June 1998	38–39
Using Problems of the Week (POW) in a Balanced Mathematics Program	32.2	Dec 2007	27–28
Using the King’s Chessboard Story to Teach Technology	Spec Ed	2004	32–33
Water Jug Logic Problems Involving Algebraic Thinking	Spec Ed	2002	42–43
Ways of Thinking (Mathematically) about a Problem	27.1	Sept 2002	30–33
What about Situational Lessons?	13.2	Dec 1988	29
What Is a Problem?	30.1	Sept 2005	26
What’s This Button For?	17.4	June 1993	26
Which Gift to Choose? An Interesting Simulation	13.3	Mar 1989	45-46
Who Am I?	12.1	Sept 1987	5
Winning at 3D Tic-Tac-Toe—Let Me Count the Ways	29.2	Dec 2004	42–43
Working on Our Knight Moves	22.2	Dec 1997	48–49
Writing to Develop Understanding: The Math Forum @ Drexel’s PoWs	31.2	Dec 2006	33–36

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