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Thinking skills underpin using and applying mathematics and the broad strands of problem solving, communication and reasoning. Well-chosen mathematical activities will develop pupils’ thinking skills. For example, you might devote occasional stand-alone lessons to an investigation of a problem. Used well, this approach can focus pupils’ attention on the ‘using and applying’ or thinking skills that they have used so that they can apply these skills more generally in their mathematics work. But the main approach to using and applying mathematics and thinking skills is to integrate them within everyday teaching, thereby helping pupils to make the connections in learning associated with success in mathematics. (Extract from Framework for Teaching Mathematics: Years 7, 8 and 9.)