Navigating through Problem Solving and Reasoning in Grade 2

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 interesting, complex problems. The Navigating through Problem Solving and Reasoning books for prekindergarten-kindergarten, grade 1, and grade 2 present investigations that nurture reasoning and problem-solving strategies in young children. Explorations for grade 2 include such tasks as determining the coins in piggy banks, matching two-dimensional faces with three-dimensional solids, and organizing data about hats in tree diagrams. Students apply mathematical ideas from the five main content areas-number, algebra, geometry, measurement, and data analysis. As they work, they infer, generalize, reason by analogy, recognize relationships, and make representations, and they also guess, check, and revise and verify their results.House, Peggy A. is the author of 'Navigating through Problem Solving and Reasoning in Grade 2', published 2004 under ISBN 9780873535519 and ISBN 0873535510.