Problem Solving in Mathematics, Grades 3-6: Powerful Strategies to Deepen Understanding

✍ Scribed by Alfred S. Posamentier, Stephen Krulik

Publisher: Corwin Press
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 153
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

With sample problems and solutions, this book demonstrates how teachers can incorporate nine problem solving strategies into any mathematics curriculum to help students succeed.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
......Page 6
Preface
......Page 8
Publisher's Acknowledgments
......Page 10
About the Authors
......Page 11
An Introduction to Problem Solving......Page 14
Organizing Data......Page 20
Intelligent Guessing and Testing......Page 37
Solving a Simpler Equivalent Problem......Page 49
Acting It Out or Simulation......Page 61
Working Backwards......Page 73
Finding a Pattern......Page 84
Logical Reasoning......Page 101
Making a Drawing......Page 112
Adopting a Different Point of View......Page 129
Readings on Problem Solving......Page 147

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