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Using and Applying Mathematics at Key Stage 2: A Guide to Teaching Problem Solving and Thinking Skills Elaine Sellars 1st edition
Using and Applying Mathematics at Key Stage 2: A Guide to Teaching Problem Solving and Thinking Skills
Elaine Sellars
All pupils - able children included - need to be taught strategies to enable their thinking skills to progress. They also need help with developing different approaches to problem solving. A sustained piece of work that requires perseverance, logical strategies, and refinement of method and extension of the original task is not the same as a straightforward quick-fix type problem. Both types of problem solving need to be taught. This book presents a series of activities that can be used with whole classes to provide a curriculum for the teaching of problem solving and the development of thinking skills. Each tried and tested investigation is clearly explained with ideas on how to introduce the task to a class, full solutions and resource sheets.
Activities include prisoners: a fun way of generating square numbers; handshakes: exploring arithmetic progressions; T-shape: an activity to lead pupils from numerical calculations to algebraic generalizations; frogs: encouraging systematic working and listing; and opposite corners: an advanced piece of work for independent learners.
104 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 22, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138157118 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 104 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 350 g |
| Language | English |
