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Dear sir/ madam

My daughter is having lot's of problem with problem solving she is in grade 6. She is using mathematics in action from macmillan/ mcgraw- hill. Do you know of any way she can get help, and if there is any tests on line

thanks brigitte
 

 

Hi Briditte,

The following websites might be useful as they offer different strategies for solving problems with examples of problems, also other sites offer a lot of problems.

Problem Solving Websites (January 2003)


http://gouchercenter.edu/jcampf/searching_for_solutions.htm#WebQuest%20Introduction
a little bit of everything on problem solving, very nice site


http://www.qerhs.k12.nf.ca/projects/math-problems/intro.html
excellent site, strategies, problems to work through with hints and solutions


http://standards.nctm.org/document/chapter4/prob.htm
excellent problem solving for preK – grade 2 with examples and applets for students to work on


http://standards.nctm.org/document/chapter5/prob.htm
problem solving for grades 3-5 with examples


http://standards.nctm.org/document/chapter6/prob.htm
problem solving for grades 6-8 with examples


http://www.nwrel.org/msec/mpm/teaching.html
strategies and scoring


http://www.misd.net/Mathematics/bigideas/problemsolving.html
strategies and examples


http://www.mathcounts.org/Problems/strategies.html
strategies and examples


http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/DeerParkES/kids/diane/Math/tenstrat.htm
strategies and examples


http://www.mav.vic.edu.au/PSTC/general/strategy.htm
strategies


http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/HuntersWoodsES/math/strateg.htm
strategies and examples


http://westgresham.gresham.k12.or.us/jcooke/PSstrat.html
strategies and pictures to represent these strategies


http://www.3-cities.com/~moore/strategies.htm
strategies and pictures to represent these strategies (I think they are the same as the ones in the Problem Solver series)


http://www.mathcounts.org/Problems/problems.html
strategies, examples, problems


http://crystal.biol.csufresno.edu:8080/~davidz/Chem3AF97/ChC/PSStrategies.html
strategies


http://my.en.com/60/A2/pcsd/departments/curriculum/alps/prob_solv.htm
strategies and examples of manipulative games


http://problem-solving.tripod.com/
a bit of everything


http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/reese/cereal/intro.html
The cereal box problem, middle years level


http://mathforum.org/sum95/ruth/elem.pow.html
lots of problems


http://mathforum.com/workshops/lucent/problem_solving_strategies.html
strategies


http://www.mathstories.com/Book_17_3pigs_grades23.htm
word problems, uses imperial units of measure but most can be adapted, 2 versions of same problems with different numbers for adaptations


http://www.une.edu.au/psychology/staff/malouff/problem.htm#clarify
50 problem solving strategies and descriptions


http://mccants.anderson5.net/jbrown/math_sequence.htm
rules for working in math teams


http://victorian.fortunecity.com/durer/728/index3.html#strategy
strategies and examples

Hope this helps.

Diane

 
 

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