Guided Multi-Step Problem Solving
With teacher guidance, make sense of multi-step and more complex problems by planning a pathway to the solution, identifying relevant information, and choosing appropriate operations
Lesson
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Plan, solve and check a two-step problem with a helper.
Before teaching
Use this short check, then start teaching.
Inferred, not a taxonomy edge: learner can access the supplied prompt with agreed support and can explain or mark a response. If earlier skills are unfamiliar, use the prerequisite topic for teaching; an authored prerequisite is not proof this learner is ready.
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Plan, solve and check a two-step problem with a helper.
Plan, solve and check a two-step problem with a helper.
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Learning resources
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NRICH · Practice link — not the full lesson
Primary
Before you open · source notes
Primary supports Guided Multi-Step Problem Solving. An adult previews and guides; this is a learning page, not a scored quiz.
Free educational page, no sign-in required for the tested path.
Before you openAsk the learner one fact they learned and one question they still have.
Opening this link does not save learning or assess mastery.
Source, access and review notes
Public NRICH page. An anonymous GET on 2026-11-12 returned HTTP 200 with no login or payment prompt for this URL. Opening the link does not save practice or assess mastery. An adult should preview and guide the learner.
NRICH. “Primary.” External page; Gakuva does not copy, host, embed, or redistribute materials.
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Check understanding
- When given a word problem within 20 or 100, identify the known information and what needs to be found
- Try a strategy (drawing, number line, known fact) and switch approach if the first attempt stalls
- Check the reasonableness of an answer using estimation or a different method
“If your child works out that 3 children each get 12 sweets and ends up with 5, does your child pause and say "that doesn't seem right" rather than just writing it down?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Meta
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Domain
- Mathematical Thinking
- Age range
- Ages 6–7
Standards