Beschreibung:
This book introduces ten problem-solving strategies by first presenting the strategy and then applying it to problems in elementary mathematics. In doing so, first the common approach is shown, and then a more elegant strategy is provided. Elementary mathematics is used so that the reader can focus on the strategy and not be distracted by some more sophisticated mathematics.
Contents: Introduction; Working Backwards; Adopting a Different Point of View; Finding a Pattern; Solving a Simpler Analogous Problem; Accounting for All Possibilities; Considering Extreme Cases; Making a Drawing; Intelligent Guessing and Testing; Accounting for all Possibilities; Organizing Data; Logical Reasoning;