Students need to practice daily the basic skills of estimation, computation, and problem solving in order to cope with problems in the real world when they no longer have the luxury of a teacher's guidance. This problem-solving ability will help them to become confident and capable adults. Here is a collection of' real world' verbal problems that encourage problem solving as well as computational practice, both with and without a calculator. Unlike the textbook, these problems are purposely not organized around one particular operation.

Daily Math Adventures

Education & Teaching

MARCY COOK

Schools & Teaching

Cuisenaire Co.

Great for college prep. Developing critical thinking is a lifelong asset.

Problem Solving Through Critical Thinking

Business & Money

Edwards, Ronald R.

Management & Leadership

The author's introduction: For decades teachers have searched for ways to motivate their students. As a math teacher for thirteen years ... I have learned that one of the easiest ways to motivate students is to get them involved with their mathematics. This means taking mathematics out of the textbook and putting it into real-life situations. With this approach students are willing to work problem after problem because it is interesting, relevant to their lives and not the traditional worksheet or textbook page approach to doing math.

Creative Graphing

Children's Books

Freeman, Marji

Literature & Fiction

Idea Book: For Cuisenaire Rods at the Primary Level (No. 34070)

Patricia S.Davidson

One-Digit Addition and Subtraction With Cuisenaire Rods, Student Workbook, Grades 1-2

One-Digit Addition and Subtraction With Cuisenaire Rods, Student Workbook, Grades 1-2

Davidson, Patricia

Book by Davidson, Patricia S., Willcutt, Robert E.

Spatial Problem Solving With Paper Folding and Cutting

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Davidson, Patricia S.

Willcutt, Robert E.

Crafts & Hobbies

Activities With Manipulatives (Mathematics: Getting in Touch, Book 1)

Firederwitzer, Fredda

Grades 1-3. Includes 26 animal puzzles and 20 challenging problem-solving activity sheets. Children learn counting, sorting, geometry, spatial awareness, problem-solving, sequencing and more.

Pattern Animals: Puzzles for Pattern Blocks (Grades 1-3)

Mogensen, Sandra

Magarian-Gold, Judi

In this great softcover book, Tangram Treasury, Book A, the topics include naming. comparing and transforming shapes, visual discrimination, copying, matching, tracing, counting and recording answers, logic, and spatial problem solving.

Tangram Treasury (Book A)

Fair, Jan

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