How To Solve It
featuring Dr. Dan Freed

On April 27th, 2013, Dr. Dan Freed led a discussion and practice session on problem solving. Students learned about strategies like generalizing or specializing a problem, finding a simpler problem, varying or augmenting a problem, or working backwards in order to find a solution. All these techniques are useful across a wide variety of problems, and students practiced them by working together on a number of problems, like figuring out how many matches were needed for a tennis tournament of 50 people, or finding the volume of a small pond. For slides from the presentation and some more problems for fun and practice, check out the links below:

Printable version of the flyer

Videos from the talk: Dr. Dan Freed, April 27th, 2013

Here are some pictures from the talk. Right click and select 'view image' to see it larger.