A popular resource which supports teaching both skills and strategies for problem solving - and provides a wealth of photocopiable exercises to give children plenty of vital practice.

Simple 4-step approach to conquering the essential broad strategies. Each section includes teaching notes on how the strategy works, examples to work through with the whole class, a copy master of prompt questions and five or six problem solving task cards plus answers. The task cards offer differentiated problems (as questions or activities), at three levels.

Books for Years 1-2 include:

Drawing a diagram and table Acting it out or using concrete material Guessing and checking Looking for a pattern