From Random to Systematic

We might often suggest to children that they try to 'work more systematically' but do they know what this means? These three tasks all lend themselves to systematic working as they challenge learners to find all possible solutions. The teachers' resources section of each one provides more detail about how you can support learners to develop this invaluable skill.

We suggest that you introduce the tasks in the order below. As a group of three, these problems will give you the chance to focus in particular on the reasoning, problem solving and attitude strands of the rope model.

You can find more tasks which offer opportunities for working systematically in our lower primary and upper primary collections, in addition to our Working Systematically feature.