What's Your Problem?: Posing and Solving Mathematical Problems, K-2 - Softcover

Skinner, Penny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0435083260 ISBN 13: 9780435083267

Publisher: Heinemann, 1991

Synopsis

What's Your Problem? describes the problem-solving mathematics program that author Penny Skinner developed with a class of children over a two-and-a-half year period. It is a program that can be used n conjunction with any mathematics curriculum since its central concern is teaching style, rather than content.

She provides teachers with clear and detailed information on how they can set up similar programs with their own classes. All the familiar topics in three mathematical strands-number, space, and measurement-are introduced by means of problem-solving activities and the mathematics is integrated with other curriculum areas, particularly language work.

What's Your Problem? also includes lots of original games, illustrated examples of the children's work and discussions of the problems posed, many of which the children have generated themselves. This is a book to inspire and assist teachers who wish to adopt a problem-centered approach to teaching mathematics.

About this title

About the Author

PENNY SKINNER is a practicing primary school teacher and has taught early primary classes and student teachers in Sydney, Hobart and Canberra.

Review

." . . contains a great deal of useful material that will help any primary-grade teacher improve the problem-solving section of the mathematics program."-Arithmetic Teacher ?. . . contains a great deal of useful material that will help any primary-grade teacher improve the problem-solving section of the mathematics program.?-Arithmetic Teacher

Edition details

• Publisher: Heinemann
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0435083260
• ISBN 13: 9780435083267
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128