ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a conceptual framework from which meaningful and useful teaching strategies may be derived. It presents an overview of the area of problem solving. The chapter deals with the nature of problem solving and how problem solving skills may be developed. It discusses the nature of planning and the relationship between planning and problem solving. The chapter examines several matters that would appear to facilitate the integration of problem solving procedures into classroom teaching practice. It considers how teachers can use their time in the most effective way while dealing with children who have diverse abilities and skills. Student-mediated learning systems, such as peer tutoring have become incorporated in instructional procedures within the cognitive literature. Problems confronted can be termed well-structured or ill-structured. Intellectual skills are those capabilities that develop as a result of cognitive growth.
