Problem+Solving

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Sara Stull-Week 5 [] This site offers puzzles, thinking games, and problem solving activities in order to help students develop their problem solving skills. The website offers over 15 puzzles for students to choose from.

Jim Casey- Week 5 [] This site gives access to many different links for students to work on their problem solving skills. There must be at least 50 different links for students to use and practice.

Kate Sekely - Week 5 [] This site is geared towards the younger students, K-6. The idea behind the site is to help kids "thrive on math". There is an area for open ended problems, exploration,crafts, as well as important math concepts.

G. Polya, How to Solve It Summary taken from G. Polya, "How to Solve It", [] Rosann Moskel

Susan Walton - Week 5 [] This website has a variety of problem solving problems for students of all levels. It also has worksheets, problem solving strategies, online math resources, math lessons and articles on mathematics and videos.

Amy Haynes - Week 3 [] I found this website to be most appropriate for grades 3-5. Not only are students able to solve word problems and logic puzzles but they can also watch match vido tutorials concerning their topic of study, review skills with interactive flashcards and maniuplatives, and print worksheets for additional practice. Looks like a great site for independent practice or fast finishers in the upper elementary grades.

Cynthia Paul- Week 4 [|www.figurethis.org] This site gives challenges that families can do together at home. It provides interesting math challenges that middle-school students can do at home with their families. Each challenge features a description of the important math involved, a note on where the math is used in the real world, a hint to get started, complete solutions, "Try This" section, additional related problems with answers, questions to think about, fun facts related to the math, and resources for further explorations. It also provides you with alot of trivia that will interest students and parents. Great site for those students who want to be challenged.

Debby Coyle-Week 5 [] This web site **contains word problems which are classified into different grades up to Grade 12. It is a set of carefully selected problems which can help improve problem solving skills. If having trouble, there are helpful hints by using the //hints// link.**

Benjamin Reifsnyder - Week 5 [] I actually just came across this website as I was searching for tools for problem solving with my classes as we prepare for PSSA's. This site gives example problems and general problem solving ideals. I wish the site was more interactive but it is still pretty easy to print and use the activities in the classroom.

Laura Bohlig-Week 2 []

Great sight for middle school probvlem solving practice, as well has other subjects including algebra, gometry, and graphs. The site is easy for students to navigate independently and the activities are hands-on.

Christina Kennedy-week 2 [|www.worksheetworks.com/math/**calculator**.html] This is a great site to refresh your calculator skills. I have found the it is essential that math teachers review simple calculator skills with all students throughout the school year and especially before the PSSAs.

Patricia Carpenter-Week 3 [] I could have put this site on any of the pages because it offers practice in most math areas. This site even has actual stories with word problems to solve so students are reading and doing math together in more of a reading context. This is for all grade levels and the worksheets are free.

Elise Clifford- Week 5 [] This website is great for worksheet activities. Many of the worksheets that can be found on this website can be made into hands on activites or just be a worksheet.

Carol Lavelle - Week 4 The website entitled “Home School Math” found at http://www.homeschoolmath.net/online/problem_solving.php includes a list of links to problem solving and word problem resources that are available online. The resources include articles, newsletters, interactive games, contests, clubs, activity sheets, books, and projects. These logic games are fun and stimulating for students and can include all sorts of mathematical concepts and procedures.

[] Valentines Day Problem! Students will need to figure out how many Valentines Day cards were exchanged between 28 students. Another problem is given to start out with that only involves 5 friends exchanging cards.
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David Shafer - Week 4 [|www.theproblemsite.com] This is a website where students can use higher-order thinking skills to practice problem solving. This is an educational website and has many games to test students' strategies at problem solving.

Christina Kennedy-Week 5 I am just finishing up a lesson on ratior and proportion. My students found this lesson very challenging but they were able to solve for "x" consistently by reading the proportion and cross multiplying to solve. I found some great worksheets at the following website that were appropriate for my 7th grade learning support class. [|www.mathslice.com]

Nicole Mackrell --Week 4 [|www.cut-the-knot.org] This website has some cool intereactive math activities

Mitchell Marcks- Week 5 http://fi.edu/school/math2/index.html This site is for the specific purpose of preparing Middle School students for OPEN-ENDED problem solving on standardized tests.

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This brief article gives guidelines to help teachers develop students' their problem solving skills strategies to practice in math class and in the real world applications.