Using and Applying Mathematics at Key Stage 1: A Guide to Teaching Problem Solving and Thinking Skills

ISBN-13: 9781138175778 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 72 str.

Elaine Sellers; Sue Lowndes

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction. 1. Rocket to the Moon. 2. Making 10p. 3. Tables and Chairs. 4. Polygons and Polyhedra. 5. Adding to 15. 6. Hidden Faces. 7. Dotty Investigation.

O autorze

Elaine Sellars, Sue Lowndes