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"Teaching maths through problem solving means our students solve problems to learn new maths not to apply maths after it has been learned. Children learn maths through contexts, problems and situations that allow them to build meaning for the concepts."   Van de Walle, et al, 2014


Open ended tasks have:
  • More than one answer
  • Multiple entry points
  • Different levels of difficulty and can be extended 

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