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| Nov 13, 2013 at 17:44 | comment | added | Michael | IMO problem solving should be learned by solving problems, and taught by giving hints how to solve particular problems. A big part of problem solving is detecting analogies between the given problem and the ones addressed before; one cannot demonstrate detection of analogies without having handy analogies to demonstrate. | |
| Nov 13, 2013 at 16:21 | answer | added | Benjamin Dickman | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 10, 2013 at 22:04 | answer | added | The Masked Avenger | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 10, 2013 at 15:37 | answer | added | Franz Lemmermeyer | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 1, 2013 at 17:52 | comment | added | Amir Asghari | @PaulTaylor Indeed that was my point. Here is my gmail: asghari.amir. Happy to hear from you and your friend. | |
| Nov 1, 2013 at 10:14 | comment | added | Paul Taylor | Could you provide a webpage or email address on your profile, please, Amir? I was talking with someome the other day who is interested in the sociology of mathematics and I mentioned you as someone who asks interesting questions on this site, but there is no private way of contacting you. | |
| Nov 1, 2013 at 10:10 | comment | added | Paul Taylor | Polya's book should certainly be on the curriculum, but I suspect that your point is that it is folly to try to take experience and divide it up into examinable factoids. Also, centralised control of education is happening increasingly in Britain as well as Iran. | |
| Aug 28, 2013 at 6:12 | comment | added | Amir Asghari | @DevSinha Thanks for the information. In my case, unfortunately, they finally came to say, okay, all the rest of the world failed, so what, we can do it!!! | |
| Aug 28, 2013 at 3:00 | comment | added | Dev Sinha | In undergraduate textbooks, such as used for classes which introduce proofs, I skip such chapters. I prefer to have problem solving in the context of study which "goes somewhere". The Common Core is making similar choices in K-12 in the U.S. Problems like "why is multiplication distributive? why are equivalent fractions what they are? why is slope well defined?" are worth students' attention, and afford plenty of opportunity for problem solving (as do interesting applications). | |
| Jun 26, 2013 at 16:24 | comment | added | Anton Petrunin | The global reforms in mathematical education has to be forbidden. I know the history of Geometry curriculum in USSR/Russia. It is clear that each reform makes it worse. The best period was the time of Kiselev's book; it was used for about 60 years and was slowly evolving in this time. | |
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| Jun 26, 2013 at 12:53 | comment | added | Martin | You can't make a question CW yourself with the new software. You need to flag for moderator attention and ask the moderators to do it. I've done the flagging for you this time. | |
| Jun 26, 2013 at 12:52 | comment | added | Amir Asghari | I wish to make this question a CW. But, strangely I didn't find the CW box around!! Please someone tick the box or let me know where it is now! | |
| Jun 26, 2013 at 12:17 | history | asked | Amir Asghari | CC BY-SA 3.0 |