What Does Integration of Science and Mathematics Really Mean?
Davis M. Davison, Kenneth W. Miller, and Dixie L. Metheny Montana State U- Billings In this era of curriculum reconstruction, considerable attention is being focused on curriculum integration. The integration of science and mathematics continues to be interpreted in different ways. In this article, five different meanings of integration of science and mathematics–discipline specific, content specific, process, methodological and thematic-are investigated along with instructional implications of these different approaches to integration. • Science Vocabulary Load of Selected Secondary Science Textbooks Fred H. Groves Northeast Louisiana University It has been argued that many students view science as a collection of facts and terms to be memorized. Robert Yager (1983) analyzed secondary level science textbooks to determine vocabulary load and found that the amount of new vocabulary terms presented in such textbooks is higher than that recommended for junior high and high school foreign
