Take your students on a year-round problem-solving adventure with thematic units that hone in on the key skills needed to meet today's standards. With the changes in mathematics standards, teachers need a tool to help them implement lessons that provide a deeper understanding of math concepts. 180 Days of Problem Solving gives teachers daily opportunities to go beyond routine word problems to strengthen reasoning skills with practice that shows how these skills apply in real-life situations. Aligned with national standards, this comprehensive workbook prepares students for college and career.

• Students will use visual representations, and analyze various approaches to solving routine and non-routine problems
• Weekly lesson plans equip teachers with a thematic unit that focuses on a standards-aligned skill
• Throughout the unit week, easy-to-use lessons outline activities to boost critical thinking skills with multi-step, higher-level problems

• Think About it! (Problem-solving process)
• Solve it! (Students solve one or two routine problems)
• Visualize It! (A visual representation such as a table or diagrams is shown as a strategy for solving a problem)
• Solve it two ways! (Students solve the same problem in two ways by applying the strategies they've learned)
• Challenge Yourself! (Features a multi-step, non-routine problem)

Each daily task is given on a full-size practice page; exercises are perfect for warm-ups, "problem of the day" type activities, or as homework. Books are softcover, have classroom-reproducible pages. Answer key included.