With this handbook you can give your students the problem solving and reasoning skills they need to take with them as they leave the classroom and enter the real world. Packed with classroom-tested, hands-on materials - including over 200 reproducible pages and black-line masters - plus practical, ready-to-use suggestions for practice, evaluation, and diagnostic assessment of reasoning and problem-solving skills, this is the ideal tool for ensuring problem-solving success. Each chapter includes a series of activities, games, and references to reproduction pages at the back of the book that can be used immediately to help develop your students' abilities within each subskill.

Preface/About the Authors. 1. Introduction. What Is Reasoning? What Is Problem Solving? The Heuristics. The Subskills of Problem Solving. How to Use This Book. How to Evaluate Problem-Solving and Reasoning Activities. 2. Read and Think. 3. Explore and Plan. 4. Select a Strategy. Pattern Recognition. Reduction and Expansion. Working Backwards. Experimentation and Simulation. Guess and Test. Logical Deduction. Organized Listing/Exhaustive Listing. Divide and Conquer. Write an Equation. 5. Find an Answer. 6. Reflect and Extend. Find Alternate Solutions. What If? and Extend. 7. A Collection of Nonroutine Problems. 8. A Collection of Open-Ended Problems Requiring an Extended Response. Reproduction Pages for the Heuristics. Masters for Selected Problems (Problem Cards). Masters for Open-Ended Problems.