ABSTRACT
There are many opportunities to engage in problem solving across the math curriculum. This chapter looks at the specific problem-solving standards across the curriculum including money, time, capacity, mass, fractions and decimals. Using picture prompts helps students to visualize the problem and therefore scaffolds their thinking. When working with capacity problems, students should actually measure out amounts. Students usually have very narrow ways of thinking about numbers. So, it is important to get them to think about fractions as the amount of the whole and not as something that is the same size and the same shape. Students need to actually hold and count and reason about money by using play money. It is important to use decimal grids and not base ten blocks when teaching decimals because using base ten blocks can confuse students.
