Articles
88 Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
Janet M. Walker
102 Using Technology to Optimize and Generalize:
The Least-Squares Line
Maurice J. Burke and Ted R. Hodgson 108 The Inverse Name Game
Christine C. Benson and Margaret Buerman 114 Some Interesting and Thought-Provoking
Geometric Fallacies Alan Sultan
126 Purchasing a Used Car Using Multiple Criteria Decision Making
Thomas G. Edwards and Kenneth R. Chelst
136 Critical Juncture Ahead! Proceed with Caution to Introduce the Concept of Function
Gregorio A. Ponce
146 Teaching Preservice Secondary Teachers How to Teach Elementary Mathematics Concepts Robin S. Kalder
Janet M. Walker provides all past (and present) flower children an opportunity to get in touch with their roots in her article, "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?"
Walker uses technology and polar graphs in her classes, inducing her students to produce stunning results on their way to learning a great deal about polar graphing.
Departments
86 Reader Reflections 94 Media Clips
"Math Phobia"
"Predicting Rain," by Larry Lesser
Edited by Margaret Cibes and James Greenwood 98 Call for Manuscripts: 2 0 0 9 Focus Issue
Proof: Laying the Foundation 99 Mathematical Lens
Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Marshall Lassak
Edited by Ron Lancaster and Brigitte Bentele
120 September Calendar 122 Solutions to Calendar
Edited by Jean McGivney-Burelle and Janet A. White
125 Guide to Advertisers
145 Call for Sets of Calendar Problems:
Mark Your Calendar 150 Delving Deeper
More on Powers of m, Phone Trees, Symbolic Algebra, and Combinations Linrong Zhang and Ying Wang
Edited by Al Cuoco and E. Paul Goldenberg 155 Technology Tips
Don't Curve It, Convert It! Translating Assessment Score "Languages" with a Graphing Calculator Jay Walgren
Edited by Robin Rider and Kathleen Lynch-Davis 158 For Your Information
Vol. 101, No. 2 • September 2007 | MATHEMATICS TEACHER 85
