Monograph,  No. 7,  Publications,  Teaching Ideas

Nuts! or How Children Solve Problems

Monograph No. 7: Problem Solving in the Mathematics Classroom

April 1982

Publication of the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association

101 – 103

Nuts! or How Children Solve Problems

John Firkins

Place 10 nuts in five rows of four nuts each. The problem is not new. What is new is that a corporation used it in its advertisings.