Grades 1–8
- Includes more than 150 worksheets with detailed solutions to each problem.
- Meets state performance standards and benchmarks!
- Help students become better problem solvers!
Problem of the Day is a tool for teachers that prepares students for meeting state performance benchmarks and standards through math problem solving. Students learn how to read a math problem, break it down into parts, and solve the problem using clear methods and strategies as they discover the best solution to their problem.
Includes template CD with 150 worksheets designed to match most state testing formats for problem solving.
- Use the worksheets as in-class lesson starters, as a take-home assignment, or as extra credit worksheets
- Project the worksheet onto a screen for whole class discussion
- Have worksheets available instantly. Eliminate the time consuming task of writing your own problems
- All solutions are detailed explanations of how to solve the problem, not just a simple numerical answer
Sections include:
- Strategies for problem solving with 36 problem solving strategy worksheets
- Master templates in 5 different styles
- More than 150 Problem of the Day worksheets with detailed solutions to each problem
- List of problem solving web sites
- All worksheets provided in fully editable Microsoft Word format and PDF format
- Check for Retention: Give students a worksheet, go over it in class, edit the problem (numbers and other data) in the problem and give it to the students again. How did they do?
Problem solving strategies:
- Use objects to solve problems
- Make a drawing or model
- Make a table
- Make a systematic list
- Guess and check
- Look for a pattern
- Work backwards
- Use logical reasoning
- Make it simpler
- Brainstorm
