Educational Psychology / Unit 6 EDP 0511 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Problem-Solving Strategies
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The idea
Useful strategies include problem analysis, breaking a problem into subproblems; working backward from the goal; and analogical thinking, applying the solution of a similar problem.
In practice
A student decodes an unfamiliar word by analogy with one she knows that rhymes.
Where people slip
Mental set and functional fixedness are both failures of how the problem is represented.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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