Problem Solving

I like It’s Elementary from EPS for teaching skills to solve word problems I don’t think it goes into time however..but reasoning is there..

Thanks!

Some of the workbooks at http://www.criticalthinking.com are very good — although you can get them for less at http://www.rainbowresource.com. If you order from Rainbow Resource, ask for a copy of their printed catalog, as they have whole sections of materials on logic, reasoning, etc.

The SET game is good for developing pattern recognition and higher order reasoning skills. The Rush Hour game is good for developing visual-spatial reasoning.

My dyslexic dd could not grasp the concept of telling time until after she went through PACE (I think due to visual sequential processing issues). After PACE, I used the manipulatives approach of Math-U-See (http://www.mathusee.com) to teach time, and she picked it up quickly that way. (The method is in the Teacher’s Manual for Foundations level.)

A very good book you may want to take a look at is “Mathematics for Dyslexics: A Teaching Handbook” by Chinn & Ashcroft. The authors have extensive experience teaching mathematics to LD children and have many suggestions, including a chapter on teaching time.

Mary

Thanks, Mary. I always enjoy reading your posts. You have so much knowledge.

Are Rush Hour and Set individual, small group, or entire class games? Which Rush Hour game would you recommend for 5th graders? Thanks.:)

SET is usually played individually or with two players, but it could probably be done in a small group of four. We have always played Rush Hour either individually or taking turns one-on-one. I don’t think it would lend itself to small group play.

All of the Rush Hour games are the same — just different manipulatives. We like the original cars version best, but that may be because that’s the version we started with. The difficulty of the cards is the same whatever version you buy. The cards that come with the set start with novice level problems to solve and work their way up to master level. You can buy add-on card sets too, to increase the number of problems to be solved, or to offer more difficult problems.

Mary