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Thinking Through Math Word Problems
Strategies for Intermediate Elementary School Students
This innovative text teaches elementary school students the techniques of critical thinking and problem solving and applies those methods to mathematical word problems. It supplements traditional fourth, fifth, and sixth grade textbooks and increases students' thinking and problem solving abilities...
To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge
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Problem Solving & Comprehension
7th Edition
This popular book shows students how to increase their power to analyze problems and comprehend what they read using the Think Aloud Pair Problem Solving [TAPPS] method. First it outlines and illustrates the method that good problem solvers use in attacking complex ideas. Then it provides practice...
Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge
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Problem Solving & Comprehension
6th Edition
This popular book shows students how to increase their power to analyze problems and to comprehend what they read. First, it outlines and illustrates the method that good problem solvers use in attacking complex ideas. Then, it provides practice in applying these methods to a variety of...
Published August 31st 1999 by Routledge
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Why Johnny Can't Write
How to Improve Writing Skills
The authors of this book, both experienced teachers, examine the controversy surrounding two popular methods for teaching writing -- the "process" approach and its offspring, Writing Across the Curriculum. Both have recently been called into question for their ineffectiveness. An alternative...
Published August 31st 1990 by Routledge
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Thinking Through Math Word Problems
Strategies for Intermediate Elementary School Students
This innovative text teaches elementary school students the techniques of critical thinking and problem solving and applies those methods to mathematical word problems. It supplements traditional fourth, fifth, and sixth grade textbooks and increases students' thinking and problem solving abilities...
Published May 31st 1990 by Routledge
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Analytical Writing and Thinking
Facing the Tests
This textbook is designed to enhance the thinking and writing skills that students need for both academic and occupational success. It helps to prepare students for the verbal portions of the SAT, PSAT, ACT, GED, and GRE and offers tips on how to pass writing tests often required for promotion/...
Published April 30th 1990 by Routledge
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Analyze, Organize, Write
This book offers students a method for understanding and mastering the rhetorical patterns that comprise expository writing. Its exercises ask students to arrange jumbled sentences into logical order, forming model essays for standard rhetorical patterns such as comparison/contrast, classification,...
Published July 31st 1987 by Routledge