Problem-solving strategies for efficient and elegant solutions : a resource for the mathematics teacher / Alfred S. Posamentier, Stephen Krulik ; foreword by Nobel Laureate Herbert A. Hauptman.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Posamentier, Alfred S.
Other Authors: Krulik, Stephen
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, [1998], ©1998.
Subjects:
Problem solving.
Physical Description:xx, 249 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction to problem-solving strategies
  • Working backwards
  • Finding a pattern
  • Adopting a different point of view
  • Solving a simpler analogous problem
  • Considering extreme cases
  • Making a drawing (visual representation)
  • Intelligent guessing and testing (including approximation)
  • Accounting for all possibilities
  • Organizing data
  • Logical reasoning.