Using and Applying Mathematics at Key Stage 2 (eBook)

A Guide to Teaching Problem Solving and Thinking Skills

Sue Lowndes, Elaine Sellars (Autoren)

eBook Download: PDF

2013
104 Seiten
Taylor and Francis (Verlag)
978-1-134-15570-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.7.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• ISBN-10: 1-134-15570-0 / 1134155700
• ISBN-13: 978-1-134-15570-5 / 9781134155705