Frequently Asked Questions Thousands of web sites for educators and students. Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. The series is designed for grades 1 to 6 and is organized around structured activities. It provides opportunities for students to organize data into graphs, make decisions, recognize patterns and relationships, and apply different techniques to represent information in the problem.
Emphasis is on choosing the correct problem solving strategy.
Problems are included to illustrate the strategy and as practice in applying it. Some of the questions ask for the correct arithmetic operation only, while others ask for the answer to the problem. For example, a large pile of marbles is pictured and students are asked to guess the number of marbles in the bottom layer of the pile and in the entire pile. Additional problem solving exercises are provided in a separate resource that includes pretests and posttests.