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EU/IS/2008/MS/57
What is creative problem solving?
Creative problem solving is looking at the same thing as
everyone else and thinking something different
Creative Problem Solving is a proven method for
approaching a problem or a challenge in an imaginative
and innovative way.
Creative problem solving D.Rishaana
Kind of problems
Creative problem solving D.Rishaana
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How would you arrange matches to
form e!uilateral triangles?
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with % e!ual si&ed S!uares
"earrange letters to make words
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with four (! strai"ht
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Problems
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KEROJ
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"earrange letters to make words
Creative problem solving
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Sol#ions$
"emove # lines$ so that you end up
with % e!ual si&ed S!uares
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Sol#ions$
How would you arrange matches to form
e!uilateral triangles?
Creative problem solving
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Why don't we think
creatively more often?
What are the barriers that get in our way?
The way we have always done things seems to work ust fine, why
change!
"aving a routine helps us do many of the things we need to do without
having to really think about them.
When it comes to dealing with the day#to#day busy aspects of our lives,
we are creatures of habit. We get dressed, read the paper, take out the
trash, wash the dishes, clean the house the same way.