PROBLEM SOLVING PROCESS (GEORGE POLYA) 1) Understanding the problem - You have to understand the problem and state

the problem in your own words. -What is the unknown? -What are the data? -What is the condition? -Is it possible to satisfy the condition? -Is the condition sufficient to determine the unknown? -Or is it insufficient? -Draw a figure. -Introduce suitable notation. - eparate the various parts of the condition. !" Devising a plan -#ind the connection between the data and the unknown. -$onsider au%iliary problems if an immediate connection can be found. -What strategy do you know? -&ook at the unknown. 'nd try to think of a familiar problem having the same or a similar unknown. -$ould you restate the problem? $ould you restate it still differently? -$ould you solve a part of the problem? -$ould you derive something useful from the data? (" $arrying out the plan -)se the strategy that you selected and work the problem. -$arrying out your plan of the solution. -$heck each step ****************************************************************************************** ************** **********************rive the solution differently? $an you see it at a glance? -$an you use the result+ or the method+ for some other problem?

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