Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association
Volume 35 Issue 1, February 1998
20 – 24
Let’s Solve the Problem Before We Find the Answer
Carolyn F. Talton
Ask a roomful of elementary mathematics teachers where their students have the most trouble, and the chorus of “problem solving” is overwhelming. Teachers reply this way because it is true. Study after study continues to cite the area of problem solving as the number-one concern in the classrooms of America as was recently well documented (Suydam 1982, 56–60).
