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Problem solving: Parts 2 and 3 (Draft)
| Audience: |
Key Stage 2 teachers, Key Stage 1 teachers, Foundation Stage practitioners |
| Date of issue: |
Aug. 2005 |
| Reference number: |
DfES1386-2005 and DfES1387-2005 |
What is it?
This guidance is part of a series of materials from the Primary National Strategy designed to help all staff involved in the teaching of mathematics to:
- identify problems of a particular type and the strategies that children can use to solve them;
- construct teaching sequences for teaching problem solving;
- incorporate problem solving within the mathematics curriculum;
- develop children’s reasoning and explanation skills;
- engage in whole-staff discussions on the above.
These materials are designed to follow on from the first CPD pack (DfES0247-2004G) which focused on Finding all possibilities. It is recommended that those materials are used before these.
The materials together aim to support schools to:
- identify the principles of good practice when teaching problem solving;
- identify the progression in children’s strategies that should inform learning and expectations.
The first CPD pack should have prompted schools to begin deciding on their policy for improvingthe teaching and learning of problem solving. These materials are designed to help them to build on those decisions through a focus on two other areas: finding rules and describing patterns and logic problems.
Proposed model for use of these materials in school
This set of materials suggests four staff meetings, perhaps two in one term and two in a following term, to support the lessons it contains:
- two one-hour meetings focus on finding rules and describing patterns, and discuss progression in expectations and assessment around problem solving;
- a set of lessons focuses on finding rules and describing patterns. Teachers are asked to use them with their own classes between the first and second staff meetings;
- two further meetings focus on logic problems;
- a set of lessons focuses on logic problems. These are again used between the two staff meetings.
NOTE: These materials are draft.
Downloads
 Problem solving parts 2 and 3 (PDF 216Kb)
Module 2: Finding rules and describing patterns (PDF 299Kb)
Module 3: Logic problems (PDF 852Kb)
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