Problem-solving strategies for efficient and elegant solutions
Subtitle: a resource for the mathematics teacher
By: Alfred S Posamentier, Stephen Krulik.
Contributors: Krulik, Stephen.
Publisher: Corwin Press; Corwin
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Problem solving
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to problem-solving strategies; title: Working backwards; title: Finding a pattern; title: Adopting a different point of view; title: Solving a simpler, analogous problem (specification without loss of generality); title: Considering extreme cases; title: Making a drawing (visual representation); title: Intelligent guessing and testing (including approximation); title: Accounting for all possibilities; title: Organizing data; title: Logical reasoning.