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Problem Quotes by George Polya
- Where should I start? Start from the statement of the problem. ... What can I do? Visualize the problem as a whole as clearly and…
- A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem may be modest,…
- The future mathematician ... should solve problems, choose the problems which are in his line, meditate upon their solution, and invent new problems. By this…
- The open secret of real success is to throw your whole personality into your problem.
- If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it.
- If you wish to learn swimming you have to go into the water and if you wish to become a problem solver you have to…
- A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem.
- Success in solving the problem depends on choosing the right aspect, on attacking the fortress from its accessible side.
- It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way.
- Solving problems is a practical skill like, let us say, swimming. We acquire any practical skill by imitation and practice. Trying to swim, you imitate…
- The first and foremost duty of the high school in teaching mathematics is to emphasize methodical work in problem solving...The teacher who wishes to serve…
- If you cannot solve the proposed problem try to solve first some related problem.
- Even fairly good students, when they have obtained the solution of the problem and written down neatly the argument, shut their books and look for…
- One of the first and foremost duties of the teacher is not to give his students the impression that mathematical problems have little connection with…
- The teacher can seldom afford to miss the questions: What is the unknown? What are the data? What is the condition? The student should consider…
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