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The 50 fun and engaging puzzles in this book will help students to hone their problem solving abilities. All of the puzzles are carefully designed to help young readers increase their speed, confidence, accuracy, and ability in solving mathematical problems both in the classroom and in real life. Each page of the book features a different puzzle intended to enhance the development of necessary math problem solving skills. The book's content and methods...
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To design innovative product, service, and process concepts, marketing strategies, and methods of resource allocation and management, organizations need creative views and solutions. The secret word that may turn around an organization, corporation, division, or department is creativity.Numerous firms, such as 3M, Frito-Lay, and Texas Instruments, have successfully included systematic creative exercises into their training and production processes...
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Character Education: Fostering Creativity and Problem Solving is like a toolbox filled with everything you need to tackle life's challenges. Remember the last time you lost something, like a pencil or a cloak? Or faced a bully and didn't know what to do? This book uses fun stories, questions, and guides to help you understand what to do in situations like these. it's for anyone who wants to learn, grow, and have a good time doing it. Each chapter...
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NASA wants to send humans to Mars within the next 25 years, but before that can happen, they must plan and prepare. This math reader will engage students as they read about STEM topics, building both their literacy skills and math content knowledge. With a focus on NASA's Mission to Mars, students will learn problem solving through the use of real-world examples. Captivating images, practice problems, and mathematical charts and diagrams help develop...
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Let's face it: very few people have studied how to solve problems. Problems knock us down like a tsunami and we don't know what to do about it. We lie awake at night worrying about it and spend our days stressing out over a situation that only seems to get worse. It doesn't have to be that way. Roger Dawson has taught hundreds of thousands of people has to negotiate, persuade, and make decisions, with his lectures, audio programs and books, and now...
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This book is a life-changing experience that will project yourself forward by solving problems at all levels both for individuals and companies.
You will find that it entitles you to further enhance your lifestyle with increased opportunities as well as health improvements.
It will also propel you into something that allows you to escape from all types of problems that have perhaps held you back from moving forward, in assisting you to achieve the...
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This guidebook is a product of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Accountability Mechanism's Office of the Special Project Facilitator (OSPF). Built on the experiences and lessons of OSPF's problem solving with ADB-assisted projects, it spells out a practical approach to solving problems encountered in projects. The value of the OSPF approach to problem solving is recognized in resolving community development problems, in facilitating improved relations...
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What is missing in most curricula, from elementary school all the way through to university education, is coursework focused on the development of problem-solving skills. Most students never learn how to think about solving problems.
Besides being a lot of fun, a puzzle-based learning approach, also does a remarkable job of convincing students that (a) science is useful and interesting, (b) the basic courses they take are relevant, (c) mathematics...
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Recess is a time to go outside, have fun, and play. Spend some time problem solving to make sure everyone has fun at recess! This nonfiction math book combines math and reading skills, and uses real-life examples of problem solving to teach subject-area content. The dynamic images, detailed sidebars, practice problems, and math diagrams make learning problem solving easy and fun. Text features include a table of contents, a glossary, an index, and...
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Now you can change your life with this creative thinking techniques guide. Discover simple and straight-forward ideas, methods and techniques that will enhance your creative thinking skills so that you can enjoy problem solving life's challenges. Discover: • How to snap out of limited left-brained thinking and access whole-brain problem solving techniques • How to be creative with the instant inspiration techniques • Productivity secrets revealed!...
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This book explains the importance to acquire complex problem-solving in today's job environment. The book describes how to use five problem-centered methods to design training for real-world complex problem-solving skills. The book briefly describes the five methods in the context of the complex problem-solving skills - Problem-based learning (PBL), Project-based learning, Scenario-based learning (SBL), Case-based learning method (CBL), and Simulation-based...
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"Unlocking the Power of Critical Thinking: Strategies for Effective Problem-Solving" is an indispensable guide for individuals seeking to enhance their critical thinking abilities and master the art of problem-solving. In a world that demands constant adaptation and decision-making, the book equips readers with the necessary skills and strategies to navigate complex challenges successfully.The book begins with an engaging introduction that underscores...
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Drawing on vast experience, the authors show how to apply state-of-the-art decision science, statistical modeling, benchmarking, and process modeling techniques together to create a robust analytical framework for better decision making. They integrate both new and time-tested techniques into a logical structured approach for assessing issues, developing solutions and making decisions that drive the successful achievement of business goals.
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Blame abounds! People confront us at work, the store, and online. Nerves get on edge. We get stuck blaming others for anything that goes wrong. With high-conflict people increasing in society, the twenty-four-hour news cycle, and social media, we hear constantly about the worst behavior. The temptation is to react and blame. Instead, consider using the simple methods taught in this book for getting them out of the past and away from blaming everyone...
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This book provides a set of proven and easy-to-use procedures for conducting problem-solving meetings more efficiently and productively, with less frustration, effort, and conflict. The effectiveness of conventional meetings is seriously limited by such factors asthe added time required for the use of in-meeting rather than pre-meeting introduction of ideas;meeting time being allocated on the basis of the order in which individuals get the floor,...
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Today's female athletes are taking sports to new heights. Carli Lloyd, Michelle Kwan, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Diana Taurasi, Billie Jean King, Serena Williams, and Venus Williams have turned the old saying to play like a girl on its head. This math reader introduces these amazing female athletes to students while giving them the opportunity to demonstrate their own perseverance while problem solving. By using real-world scenarios from soccer, tennis,...
19) Mental Models: The Ultimate Guide to Improve Your Mind. Learn Effective Problem-Solving and Criti
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Are you constantly looking for ways to improve your thought process and deal with everyday problems and situations? Would you like to live a better life? This book will teach you everything you need to overcome shyness, worries and social anxiety without paying for expensive consultations! Think critically, make better decisions, learn to focus on the process and not the outcome as well as fill you with the knowledge that you were not taught in school....
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319 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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"An art historian and lawyer who uses works of art to teach us how to hone our perceptions and visual intelligence, presents a paradigm-shattering twist on problem solving that helps us find solutions to the problems we face every day. As technology has become essential to our daily lives, our reliance on the internet and our electronic devices has exploded, short-circuiting our brains and weakening the critical skills we need to find solutions to...
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