Badger Maths Problem Solving

A popular resource which supports teaching both skills and
strategies for problem solving – and provides a wealth of photocopiable
exercises to give children plenty of vital practice.

• Simple
  4-step approach to conquering the essential broad strategies.
• Each
  section includes teaching notes on how the strategy works, examples to
  work through with the whole class, a copy master of prompt questions and
  five or six problem solving task cards plus answers.
• The
  task cards offer differentiated problems (as questions or activities), at
  three levels.

Books for Years 1-2 include:

• Drawing
  a diagram and table
• Acting
  it out or using concrete material
• Guessing
  and checking
• Looking
  for a pattern