Synopses & Reviews
From Puzzles to Projects is for teachers who want to find out more about the problem-solving process and its implementation in the classroom. It is aimed mainly at primary teachers, but those in the middle grades will also find it of value.
Synopsis
From Puzzles to Projects is for teachers who want to find out more about the problem-solving process and its implementation in the classroom. It is aimed mainly at primary teachers, but those in the middle grades will also find it of value.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 127) and index.
Table of Contents
Contents: I: The Classroom
Ways in
Working in a Group
Feelings Will Be Aroused
What Will Happen
Knowing How to
The Teacher's Role
Assessment II: The Problems. The Problems: All Change; Bag of Sticks; Bargain Offer; Best Magazine; Board Games; Boys' Own Journal; Calendars; Consecutive Numbers; Countdown; Cut It Out; Cutting up Shapes; Dancing Marathon; Date Cubes; Digits 1 to 9; Eureka!; Finger Exercise; Fire Drill; In the Stars; I've Got a Rule; Joining Triangles; Kick the Bucket; Leap Frog; Lines and Dots; MacMahon's Triangles; Magic N-grams; Making Boxes; Mini-Problems; Mix and Match; Paper Folding; Paving the Way; Real Problems; Remainders; Rolling Cubes; Room Temperature; Spirolaterls; Statistical Starters; Surrounds; Three-Eighths; TV Rating; Weighing it Up; Who Can Tell?; Solutions to the Eureka Problems.