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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