description: 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 a fun way of generating square numbers; exploring arithmetic progressions; an activity to lead pupils from numerical calculations to algebraic generalizations; encouraging systematic working and listing; and opposite an advanced piece of work for independent learners.
language: English
title: Using and Applying Mathematics at Key Stage 2
titlecomplete: Using and Applying Mathematics at Key Stage 2 (Nace/Fulton Publication)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Routledge