Using and Applying Mathematics At Key Stage 2 - A Guide to Teaching Problem Solving and Thinking Skills

Informationen zum Autor Elaine Sellars, Sue Lowndes Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This text presents 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 investigation is explained with ideas on how to introduce the task to a class, full solutions and resource sheets. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. 1. Prisoners. 2. Handshakes. 3. Worms. 4. T-shape. 5. Pond Borders. 6. Rotten Apples. 7. Pilot. 8. Painted Cube. 9. Frogs I. 10. Frogs II. 11. Opposite Corners.

Product details

• Authors: Sue Lowndes, Lowndes Sue, Elaine Sellars, Elaine Lowndes Sellars, Sellars Elaine
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.02.2003
• EAN: 9781853469602
• ISBN: 978-1-85346-960-2
• No. of pages: 104
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; JUVENILE NONFICTION / Mathematics / General, Teaching of a specific subject, For National Curriculum Key Stage 2, For National Curriculum Key Stage 2 (England and Wales), Educational: Mathematics & numeracy, Educational: Mathematics and numeracy, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General