Using and Applying Mathematics at Key Stage 1
A Guide to Teaching Problem Solving and Thinking Skills
Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching, Teaching, Teaching Methods
| Author: | Elaine Sellers, Sue Lowndes | ISBN: | 9781136636165 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | April 3, 2013 |
| Imprint: | David Fulton Publishers | Language: | English |
| Author: | Elaine Sellers, Sue Lowndes |
| ISBN: | 9781136636165 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication: | April 3, 2013 |
| Imprint: | David Fulton Publishers |
| Language: | English |
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 making 10p: a task to encourage systematic listing; tables and chairs: working systematically and spotting patterns; polygons and polyhedra: investigating diagonals, triangles, faces, edges and vertices; hidden faces: investigating different shapes and sizes of dice; and pond borders: investigating area and perimeter.
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 making 10p: a task to encourage systematic listing; tables and chairs: working systematically and spotting patterns; polygons and polyhedra: investigating diagonals, triangles, faces, edges and vertices; hidden faces: investigating different shapes and sizes of dice; and pond borders: investigating area and perimeter.
