TAKE THE PROBLEM OUT OF PROBLEM-SOLVING


Super Sleuth is a unique maths series that gives pupils and teachers strategies to effectively develop problem-solving skills. Designed to be used hand-in-hand with any core maths programme, it is the ideal problem-solving solution for your classroom.


• Focuses on the ten main problem-solving strategies, developing problem-solving skills, encouraging higher order thinking and enabling pupils to take responsibility for their own learning


– Trial and improvement – Working backwards – Working systematically – Logical reasoning – Visualisation – Patterns – Make a table – Act it out – Make amodel – Simplify


• Introduces the CLUES acronym, a teacher- and pupil-friendly framework developed uniquely for Super Sleuth to tackle themost common problem-solving difficulties experienced in Irish classrooms


• Consolidates the learning of problem-solving skills through worked examples and a step-by-step approach


• Places an emphasis on developing mathematical language and a positive attitude towards problem-solving


Teacher’s Digital Resources Teacher’s digital resources for Super Sleuth are easily accessible on


our digital resources platform www.gillexplore.ie:


• FREE teacher eBook • Full set of answers • Problem-solving framework posters • ‘Maths Trails’ questions for teachers to create personalised trails


About the Author Audrey Cooney is an


experienced primary teacher, currently teaching inHoly Spirit Senior Primary School, Dublin 12. She has aMaster’s in Education and has delivered numeracy presentations on mentalmaths skills, problem- solving skills and the use of assessment in primary schools.


ISBN 978-0-7171-7180-4 www.gilleducation.ie


9 780717 171804


Cover design by www.slickfish.ie Cover illustrations © Derry Dillon

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