Learning and Teaching for Mathematical Literacy

Supporting materials – 11A

Problems with Patterns and Numbers

Shell Centre for Mathematical Education

Problems with Patterns and Numbers has become an influential book on the teaching of problem solving. It focuses on non-routine problem solving in mathematics, and the teaching strategies needed to handle it in the classroom.

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Problems with Patterns and Numbers

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Supporting material for the book Learning and Teaching for Mathematical Literacy by Hugh Burkhardt, Daniel Pead and Kaye Stacey (ISBN 9781032301174).

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