Remember we’ve explored a variety of strategies you can use when approaching any new maths problem.

Your mathematician’s strategy toolbox includes:

• Do I know a similar problem?
• Guess, check and improve
• Try a simpler problem
• Write an equation
• Make a list or table
• Work backwards
• Act it out
• Draw a picture or graph
• Make a model
• Look for a pattern
• Try all possibilities
• Seek an exception
• Break the problem into smaller parts
• and ……………………….

If one way doesn’t work I just start again another way.

For more tips on Working Mathematically: The Process go to the Maths 300 webpage.