Explores trapezoidal numbers, which are the result of subtracting two triangular numbers. Includes classroom activities involving trapezoidal numbers to help students develop their problem-solving skills. Includes reproducible student worksheets. (MKR)

Many teachers and administrators have recognized that problem solving and reasoning represent two of the primary goals in the education of children. In order for teachers to achieve these goals, they must have appropriate materials available to them. This book includes materials to help teach and assess problem solving and reasoning. The first six…

Masters of worksheets are given that are designed to help students develop the problem-solving skills of analyzing information, identifying the question, and selecting pertinent facts. (MK)

Two problem-solving skills, guess-and-test and simplification, are introduced and reinforced through a variety of motivating problem situations. Solutions of sample problems and extensive directions for the teacher encourage the use of Polya's four-step model of problem solving. (MNS)

This document is a collection of over 200 classroom-ready activities which cover the five strands--Number, Space, Measurement, Chance and Data, and Problem Solving--outlined in Mathematics: A Curriculum Profile for Australian Schools. Each activity is a separate photocopy master, the front for the students to use and the back an assessment page…

Motivational classroom materials that provide direct instruction on problem-solving skills are given. The activity highlights and provides opportunities for practice with two problem-solving skills, make a drawing and work backward. (MNS)

Problem-solving situations are presented in various settings--a park (levels 1-2), a carnival (levels 2-4), a map (levels 4-6), and a hardware store (levels 7-8). Each page is designed to be reproduced and used for discussion. (MNS)

High school students are warned against service station fraud. A problem-solving section is designed to help students calculate consumer costs for various fraudulent transactions. Several ways of reducing fraud or of lessening the chances of problems are noted. (MP)

This document is a collection of activity-based mathematics lessons for grades K-4 from the "Ideas" department in "Arithmetic Teacher: Mathematics Education through the Middle Grades." Each lesson includes background information, objectives, directions, extensions, and student worksheets. A matrix is included which correlates…

This activity is designed to help students recognize and extend rectangular patterns and to use patterning to formulate rules for "nth" cases. Three worksheets are included. (MNS)

License plates are used to give students experiences in solving problems, following directions, developing numeracy, and writing number sentences. Four activities for different levels are given on the four worksheets. (MNS)

Suggestions for teachers are presented, involving audiovisual materials, magazines, worksheets, safety reports, computers, bulletin boards, storage, problem solving, computer-assisted job searches, visual aids, motivating techniques, visual communications, engine valve display, computer printouts for stencils, wheel alignment for tractor axles,…

Materials designed to promote student investigation of factoring quadratic polynomials over the integers through using a physical model are presented. Pupils are expected to discover regularities that will permit them to factor such polynomials at the symbolic level. Worksheet masters designed for classroom use are provided. (MP)

Activities designed to aid pupils explore the Fibonacci sequence are presented in worksheets. (MP)

Young children benefit from activities that involve various partitions of numbers, especially the number 10. Presented are two activities that require students partition and recombine numbers to solve problems in a gamelike situations. Examples and worksheets are provided. (MDH)