Problem-Solving Situations

Here's a great collection of real-world problems that require students to work together to form testable predictions--usually through some combination of measurement, observation, estimation, and calculation. Then the predictions (and the methodologies used to arrive at them) are evaluated by an actual test, not by an arbitrary answer in the teacher's manual.

Problem-Solving Situations is an essential resource for the professional math and/or science teacher (grades 5-12) who wants to expose his/her students to real problem-solving, real inquiry, and real discovery--but who needs some proven strategies for getting it done. See how much more exciting problem solving can be for students when it's a concrete experience instead of an abstract chore.

Volume 1 contains 47 problems (and many variations), involving the concepts of speed, density, circumference, area, buoyancy, triangulation, and more.