Filter by
Subjects
Subject categories
- (-) All subject categories (2364)
- Geography (610)
- AQA SOW planner (236)
- Economic development (99)
- Physical landscapes (95)
- Geographical applications and skills (89)
- Hazardous earth (82)
- Urban environments and issues (68)
- The living world (64)
- Physical systems and processes (60)
- Resources (50)
- All weather hazards (48)
- Coasts (48)
- Rivers (42)
- Population (37)
- Map skills (35)
- Earthquakes (31)
- Tropical rainforests (29)
- Weather and climate systems (29)
- Urban change in the developed world (28)
- Urban change in the less developed world (27)
- Settlement (26)
- Volcanoes (25)
- Population growth and change (24)
- Rocks, weathering and soils (24)
- Tropical storms (23)
- Urban renewal and sustainability (22)
- Plate tectonics (21)
- Urbanisation (21)
- Statistical skills (18)
- Rural environments and issues (17)
- Cold environments (16)
- Energy (16)
- Food (16)
- Glaciation (16)
- Growth of megacities (16)
- Natural hazards (16)
- Water (16)
- Climate change (15)
- The challenge of resource management (14)
- Graphical skills (12)
- Biomes and ecosystems (11)
- Migration (11)
- Population issues (11)
- Rural change (9)
- Fieldwork (8)
- Hot deserts (8)
- Tsunamis (8)
- Data presentation (7)
- Landscape processes (7)
- Using images (7)
- Ecosystems (6)
- Other environments (6)
- Rural industries (6)
- English (5)
- Language (5)
- National identity (5)
- Rainstorms (5)
- The water cycle (5)
- Drought (4)
- Health and disease (4)
- Deciduous woodlands (3)
- Grammar, spelling and vocabulary (3)
- Local area study (3)
- Oceans (3)
- Spelling (3)
- Types of geography (3)
- Using ICT (3)
- Wildfires (3)
- Heatwaves (2)
- Small scale ecosystems (2)
- Snowstorms (2)
- The carbon cycle (2)
- Topical and seasonal (2)
- Writing skills (2)
- Comprehension (1)
- Geographical skills and fieldwork (1)
- Geography (1)
- History (1)
- Reading skills (1)
- Retrieval (1)
- Sports (1)
- Summarise the main ideas (1)
- Writing for purpose and audience (1)
Global tag
Resource type
- (-) Worksheet (661)
- Student activity (571)
- Revision (191)
- Starter/Plenary (157)
- Complete lesson (130)
- Homework (107)
- Game/quiz (76)
- Teaching ideas (67)
- Exam preparation (52)
- Templates (45)
- Self-assessment (25)
- Differentiated (24)
- Assessment (20)
- Role play/debate/discussion (18)
- Knowledge organisers (15)
- Video (4)
- Form tutor (3)
- Display/posters (2)
- Lesson plan (2)
- Presentation (2)
Special Education Need SEND
Problem solving
Resources to teach problem solving skills
This collection of teaching resources aims to help children develop maths problem solving skills. It features word problems, maths challenges, problem-solving questions and a variety of worksheets and problem solving activities to help your primary school learners develop the problem solving strategies for real life contexts.
Why teach problem solving skills?
Problem solving is a skill that involves a variety of mathematical skills that will help children in real life. From addition and subtraction to fractions, decimals and percentages, we need problem-solving strategies to solve day-to-day problems involving time, money and measurement. Problem solving is an integral strand of the KS2 maths curriculum and children will be tested on their problem-solving skills in their SATs and onwards.
Have you seen our teaching packs for problem solving in maths?
If you’re teaching upper key stage 2, you may like our problem-solving teaching packs: Problem solving - number and Problem solving – measurement, geometry and statistics. Both packs comprise scaffolded word problems and differentiated activities based upon the relevant problem-solving objectives in the national curriculum. Or you may prefer Challenging maths, packed with maths mastery style questions, word problems and games to enrich your maths lessons and turn your year 5/6 class into true problem solvers!