Problem Posing and Solving: LS 499

This presentation will outline some of the themes of Margaret and Larry's Senior Synthesis course that they have been teaching since 1993, including possibly the following.

* A description of the students' editorial boards. Students submit their papers in the course to one of the editorial boards who must then either accept the paper as is, accept with revision, or reject.

* A comparison among several problem solving strategies such as Anarchistic, Chaffee, Myers-Briggs, Polya, and Synthetic / Dialectics.

* An outline of problem posing ideas including those that accept the given and those that challenge the given such as the What-If-Not? strategy of Brown and Walters.

* Parts of the "multiple perspectives" unit, possibly including Gilligan's challenge to Kohlberg's theory of Moral Development and Marcia Asher's article on African variations on a classic logic problem. The presentation is designed for a general audience, including Math faculty, LS faculty, and students.


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