A popular resource which supports teaching both skills and
strategies for problem solving – and provides a wealth of photocopiable
exercises to give children plenty of vital practice.





Simple
4-step approach to conquering the essential broad strategies.
Each
section includes teaching notes on how the strategy works, examples to
work through with the whole class, a copy master of prompt questions and
five or six problem solving task cards plus answers.
The
task cards offer differentiated problems (as questions or activities), at
three levels.

Books for Years 1-2 include:





Drawing
a diagram and table
Acting
it out or using concrete material
Guessing
and checking
Looking
for a pattern