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 4-5 include:

• Working backwards
• Analysis and investigating
• Logical reasoning
• Open-ended problem solving