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Problem Solving Study Guide: Polya's Steps

This study guide focuses on problem solving in mathematics, emphasizing critical thinking, logical reasoning, and creative approaches. Students are expected to learn Polya's four-step problem-solving strategy and apply it to various problems, including patterns and recreational challenges. The guide includes objectives, focus questions, learning activities, and resources for further study.

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Problem Solving Study Guide: Polya's Steps

This study guide focuses on problem solving in mathematics, emphasizing critical thinking, logical reasoning, and creative approaches. Students are expected to learn Polya's four-step problem-solving strategy and apply it to various problems, including patterns and recreational challenges. The guide includes objectives, focus questions, learning activities, and resources for further study.

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Study Guide for Unit Three Lesson 2

Problem Solving
Overview and Preliminaries
Mathematics requires not only facility with numbers but also the ability to
critically think through situations, to reason and argue logically and to creatively
solve problems.
In problem solving, one must understand the question, gather all pertinent
facts, organize and analyse these information, or compare the problem with
previous problems and come to some method for solving it, perhaps use pictures
or formulas to solve it.
Mathematical problem solving takes time. Solutions are not always
apparent to the solver and there may be more than one approach in solving
mathematical problems.

Objectives
At the end of the lesson, the students must have:
1. solved problems involving patterns and recreational problems following
Polya’s four steps; and
2. organized their methods and approaches for proving and solving
problems.
Focus Questions
By the end of this lesson, you should be able to give precise and thorough
answers to each of the following questions. You should keep these questions in
mind to focus your thoughts as you complete your study guide of this lesson.
1. What is a problem? Drill/Exercise?
2. What is Polya’s Four-Step Problem Solving Strategy? Can you show this
strategy in solving word problems?
Activities for Learning
1. Study Section 1.2 of the textbook. While studying this section, complete
each check your progress exercise and consult the answers on page S2
before proceeding further in the section. (Aufmann, R., et. al. (2013)
Mathematical Excursions. 3rd ed. Belmont, CA: Cengage Learning (Chapter
1, pp. 16-22)).

2. Study Section 1.3 of the textbook. While studying the section, complete
each check your progress exercise and consult the answers on pages S3-
S4 before proceeding further in the section. (Aufmann, R., et. al. (2013)
Mathematical Excursions. 3rd ed. Belmont, CA: Cengage Learning (Chapter
1, pp. 28-38)).

3. View and study the content in the following videos.


a. Make a list: Polya’s Four-Steps in solving a problem using Strip
Diagram:
[Link]
b. Intelligent Guessing and Testing:
[Link]
c. Organizing Data:
[Link]
d. Working Backwards:
[Link]
v=cGdFJ0x7sQo&list=RDCMUCwYoNvQDSDDVqeIfD3qUWBw&start_radi
o=1&t=10
e. Trial and Error:
[Link]
f. Solving a Simpler Analogous Problem:
[Link]
g. Making Table or Chart:
[Link]
h. Making a Visual Representation:
[Link]
4. Work on exercises no. 2, 7, & 18 on p. 39, exercises no. 14 & 17 on p. 45.

Credits to: North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics for creating some of the videos
used in this study guide.

Pepared by:

FRANCIS O. PANTINO
West Visayas State University (Main Campus)-Iloilo City

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