Problem solving your thing? Challenge your brain and share your skills.

Improve your maths skills through learning techniques to solve word problems that require comprehension skills and several steps to be worked out to get an answer.

Students must be working at L4+ NZC Maths

Students learn strategies to solve number and algebra problems expressed in words by using multiplicative strategies and/or finding fractions, decimals, or percentages of amounts expressed as whole numbers, simple fractions, and decimals. 

They use algebraic thinking and the order of operations rule BEDMAS.

Students learn to:

  • Identify the key information in the question.

  • Know what the question is actually asking

  • Use efficient strategies to work the question out.