Problem Solving

Today we started looking at maths problem solving. We talked about the four stages of problem solving - understand and explore the problem, find a strategy, use the strategy and finally reflect back on the strategy and solution.
We can use a number of different strategies to help us - these are our 'Problem Solving Toolkit'!
We can use:

• guess and check
• draw a diagram
• act it out
• use equipment
• make a list or table

Today we worked on two different problems working through the four stages. We will continue to work on this over the next few weeks.

Angus, Caleb, Ava & Anita working together to solve the problem.

Isaac, Liam Br, Lara & Rhiarna focused on their problem solving.