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 ... Read morequestions 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