Author Question: Three of the following strategies should promote effective problem solving. Which one will not? ... (Read 117 times)

EY67 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Three of the following strategies should promote effective problem solving. Which one will
not?

a. Help students understand the logic behind mathematical procedures.
b. Make sure students master each topic before moving on to the next one.
c. Have students practice mathematical principles on just one or two particularly vivid
examples.
d. Teach students general principles more than specific facts.

Question 2

Means-ends analysis is a very general heuristic in which the immediate aim is to:

a. reduce all steps to known algorithms.
b. take the step that is likely to yield the best short-term payoff.
c. gather more information to reduce uncertainty.
d. reduce the discrepancy between the current state and goal state.