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Problem Solving Approaches: KS2 and KS3 - PDF
A collection of problem solving ideas aimed at Upper Primary and Lower Secondary
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Problem Solving Approaches: KS2 and KS3 - PDF
This collection of ideas was used at a workshop at BCME-7 (April 2010)
How practitioners respond to teacher assessment (APP) is, I believe, wholly dependent upon the quality of tasks we plan and offer pupils to engage with in the first place, quality assessments can only emerge from quality tasks.
With this in mind the session was about how to interweave problem solving approaches into everyday mathematics lessons, so pupils use and apply their developing knowledge of: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, indices, angle, sequences, tessellations, 2D shapes...
The ideas in this publication have been adapted from sources such as ATM and NRICH. A few I invented myself although even these I must have gained the germ of an idea from some source or another.
These ideas can be adapted for mixed-attainment classes. As Mike Ollerton, the author describes himself: "If you were to cut me through, like a stick of Blackpool rock it would say: 'problem solving, no textbooks, no segregation by setting, problem solving, no textbooks, no segregation by setting, problem solving...'
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