The instructional ideas presented in this kit are specially designed for teaching students who are working with problem solving skills that encompass addition and subtraction.
The kit includes a quick, easy to use criterion-referenced rating scale, an ideas matrix, and 34 research-based strategies to improve students’ skills in the following areas: reading and understanding maths problems, using strategies to solve maths problems, checking the reasonableness of the answer, and using what they learned to solve other maths problems.
The rating scale:
The matrix:
The ideas: