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Computation This issue of the journal contains abstracts and critiques of 11 research reports. They concern: a case study of one child's strategies for mental addition; children's understanding of fractions; computation routines prescribed by schools; models in verbal problem solving; predicting eighth-grade algebra achievement; the effectiveness of microcomputers and flashcards for basic fact practice; minorities and mathematics achievement; order and equivalence of rational numbers; children's mathematical difficulties; sex differences in geometry proof writing; and mathematics achievement by American Indians and others. Research reports and articles listed in "Resources in Education " (RIE) and "Current Index to Journals in Education " (CIJE) for April-June 1985 are also listed. (MNS) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document