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Thinking Skills and Problem-Solving An Inclusive Approach
Discover and develop your pupils' strengths across the multiple intelligences by improving their problem solving skills. This book will:
tell teachers all they need to know about multiple intelligences and problem solving
provide a bank of problems that can be integrated into any lesson plan
help teachers to identify gifted and able pupils
guide schools on how to organize their curriculum using example curriculum plans.
For teachers working across the Foundation Stage, Key Stages One and Two, Headteachers and those working at management level.
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Using and Applying Mathematics at Key Stage 2
All pupils - able children included - need to be taught strategies to enable their thinking skills to progress. They also need help with developing different approaches to problem solving. A sustained piece of work that requires perseverance, logical strategies, and refinement of method and extension of the original task is not the same as a straightforward quick-fix type problem. Both types of problem solving need to be taught. This book presents a series of activities that can be used with whole classes to provide a curriculum for the teaching of problem solving and the development of thinking skills. Each tried and tested investigation is clearly explained with ideas on how to introduce the task to a class, full solutions and resource sheets.
Activities include prisoners: a fun way of generating square numbers; handshakes: exploring arithmetic progressions; T-shape: an activity to lead pupils from numerical calculations to algebraic generalizations; frogs: encouraging systematic working and listing; and opposite corners: an advanced piece of work for independent learners.
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First Choices
′Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile′ - Bertrand Russell .. and teachers, parents and carers worry that the decisions that children and young people make might be unwise or dangerous. Decision making is a skill involving both a cognitive and an affective process. The ability to: \" recognize the thoughts and feelings; \" consider the consequences; \" choose the best outcome; is a highly valued facility leading to resilience, achievement and responsibility. The skill can be taught and in these three volumes the authors provide all the materials needed to teach a course on decision making at each age level. The programme provides a menu of stories related to the real life experiences of the young people. Topics are selected to be age appropriate and the series includes: \" Stealing; \" Lying; \" Social behaviours; \" Risks; \" Justice; \" Loss,Grief and Bereavement; \" Prejudice; \" First love; \" Disability; \" Leaving home; \" Family relationships. The teacher notes indicate ′stopping points′ where reflection and discussion is encouraged. A choice of endings is offered or the young people can develop their own ideas about what might happen next.
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Problem Solving in Mathematics, Grades 3-6
Help students succeed as problem solvers in mathematics and in real-life situations! Based on the premise that problem solving is a key mathematics skill and an essential life skill, this book is designed to help teachers at all grade levels engage students in active problem solving. This resource presents ten easy-to-use strategies that offer elegant alternate approaches for resolving many types of mathematics problems. The authors demonstrate how you can: Apply the strategies to problems at different grade levels Incorporate the strategies into your mathematics program Use the strategies in real-life situations Make each strategy a part of your thinking processes
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21st Century Skills - Learning Problem Solving Gr. 3-8
Give your students the tools for success to enter the work force as employees or entrepreneurs. We include practical real-life activities, role-playing scenarios and open-ended strategies. Your students will understand the problem solving process, and take part in group creative art projects while gaining the required critical thinking and creativity skills. Develop your students' abilities through dedication and hard work with motivation, productivity, achievement and success. Learn how to comprehend and analyze information while integrating technology and media to expand their growth mindset. All centered on several project-based exercises to learn how to convert information into usable intelligence. Chocked full of standalone reproducible worksheets to give young learners of today all the tools they need to become lifelong problem solvers.
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Changing a Generation's Way of Thinking: Teaching Computational Thinking Through Programming
Computational thinking (CT) uses concepts that are essential to computing and information science to solve problems, design and evaluate complex systems, and understand human reasoning and behavior. This way of thinking has important implications in computer sciences as well as in almost every other field. Therefore, we contend that CT should be taught in elementary schools and included in every university's educational curriculum. Several studies that measure the impact of teaching programming, analytical thinking, and CT have been conducted. In this review, we analyze and discuss findings from these studies and highlight the importance of learning programming with a focus on the development of CT skills at a young age. We also describe the tools that are available to improve the teaching of CT and provide a state-of-the-art overview of how programming is being taught at schools and universities in Colombia and around the world.
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Considering mathematical creative self-efficacy with problem posing as a measure of mathematical creativity
The purpose of this study was to reveal both the effects of problem-posing interventions on the mathematical creative ability of students and how students' creative self-efficacy in mathematics was related to their mathematical creative ability. Elementary school students (n = 205) were randomly assigned to one of two groups: problem-posing or control. Results showed the mathematical creativity for the problem-posing group increased (p < 0.05) more than for students in the control group (d=0.77). Results from the Confirmatory Factor Analysis showed that mathematical creativity was a higher order factor that included mathematical creative ability and mathematical creative self-efficacy as first-order factors. Among the implications for this is that integrating problem-posing activities into elementary school mathematics instruction can foster mathematical creativity.
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