With this Newman’s Prompts for Problem Solving Template, you will be able to analyse and identify just which part of the problem-solving process your students struggle with.

A hierarchy of 5 problem-solving steps was identified by Australian Education Researcher Dr. Anne Newman that needs to be followed if students are to be successful at solving word problems. Use this as a checklist to identify which are of the problem-solving process your student struggles with. Use the 5 prompts to encourage your students to step through the whole problem-solving process and not miss any of the steps again.

The 5 Problem Solving Steps include:

• Level 1 Reading (or Decoding)
• Level 2 Comprehension
• Level 3 Transformation
• Level 4 Process Skills
• Level 5 Encoding

Here’s what’s included:

• 1x secured PDF A4 black and white template

This single Page PDF will help you identify & record what each student does in each stage of the problem-solving process so you will be able to identify areas of weakness.

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