This group of entertaining story problems helps introduce students to the process of problem solving. Your students will learn to use a four-step plan for solving problems, plus seven handy strategies: act out with objects, make a picture, make a table,use logical thinking, look for a pattern, guess and check, and make an organized list. This book includes 12 step-by-step teaching plans, 68 nonroutine story problems, solutions, blackline masters for paper manipulatives, and ideas forassessment and for using children's books as sources of similar problems. Your students will act out many of the story problems with cubes, number tiles, and play money. 80 pp