This is a 26 page Ebook from the Problem-solving in mathematics series that aims to develop problem-solving and mathematical thinking in primary students.

Key features include the following:

• extensive background information about problem-solving skills
• teachers pages to accompany each student page
• a problem-solving objective for each group of student pages
• a list of possible difficulties that students may encounter
• extension activities

Australian Curriculum Links:

• Sort and classify familiar objects and explain the basis for these classifications. Copy, continue and create patterns with objects and drawings (ACMNA005)
• Compare, order and make correspondences between collections, initially to 20, and explain reasoning (ACMNA289)
• Establish understanding of the language and processes of counting by naming numbers in sequences, initially to and from 20, moving from any starting point (ACMNA001)
• Represent practical situations to model addition and sharing (ACMNA004)
• Connect number names, numerals and quantities, including zero, initially up to 10 and then beyond (ACMNA002)
• Sort, describe and name familiar two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional objects in the environment (ACMMG009)
• Use direct and indirect comparisons to decide which is longer, heavier or holds more, and explain reasoning in everyday language (ACMMG006)