Navigating Through Problem Solving and Reasoning Grade 6 (Navigations) - Softcover

Thompson, Denisse R.; Battista, Michael T.; Mayberry, Sally; Yeatts, Karol L.; Zawojewski, Judith S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 087353607X ISBN 13: 9780873536073

Publisher: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics,U.S., 2009

Synopsis

Problem solving and reasoning are students' processes of actively applying what they know to new problems from diverse areas of mathematics. Knowing a variety of mathematical ideas is insufficient unless students can draw on, integrate and use them to solve challenging, complex problems.

The Navigating through Problem Solving and Reasoning books for grades 3-6 present hands-on investigations that nurture reasoning and problem-solving strategies in each of the upper elementary grades. In lively and challenging investigations for grade 6, students have opportunities to reason about parts of a whole, analyse patterns of growth, discover area formulas for familiar shapes, explore scale factors and similar figures and analyse a set of data to solve a real-world problem: how to arrange competitors in teams for an athletic festival. Students apply mathematical ideas from the five main content areas - number, algebra, geometry, measurement and data analysis. As they work, they infer, generalise, reason by analogy, recognise relationships and make representations and they also predict, check and revise and verify their results.

Includes a supplemental CD-ROM that features applets for students' use and resources for teachers' professional development.

Edition details

• Publisher: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics,U.S.
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 087353607X
• ISBN 13: 9780873536073
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 126