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Scenario visualization :an evolutionary account of creative problem solving
An account of how humans evolved a conscious, vision-related ability unique to their species in order to solve nonroutine problems.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (viii, 209 pages) :illustrations
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Street-fighting mathematics :the art of educated guessing and opportunistic p…
"In Street-Fighting Mathematics, Sanjoy Mahajan builds, sharpens, and demonstrates tools for educated guessing and down-and-dirty, opportunistic problem solving across diverse fields of knowledge - from mathematics to management. Mahajan describes six tools: dimensional analysis, easy cases, lumping, picture proofs, successive approximation, and reasoning by analogy. Illustrating each tool with…
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- 1 online resource (xv, 134 pages) :illustrations
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Dare to Invent the Future: Knowledge in the Service of and through Problem-So…
A rallying manifesto for the innovative problem-solving we need to build a better, more verdant, and sustainable planetary existence. Academics are letting Africa down. With all that we know, what do we have to show for it? Whose lives have been changed for the better by it? What have we done for and with our communities lately? In this provocative book—the first in a trilogy—Clapperton …
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Quantitative Problem Solving in Natural Resources
This text is intended to support courses that bridge the divide between mathematics typically encountered in U.S. high school curricula and the practical problems that natural resource students might engage with in their disciplinary coursework and professional internships.
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A Learning Approach to School Discipline : Problem Solving Instead of Punishing
"A Learning Approach to School Discipline: Problem Solving Instead of Punishing" is one of the free open textbooks for Tertiary level. Feel free to use, adapt and modify the content to your own needs, and share the improved content with others because the book is offered under Creative Commons (CC) license. It allows users to repurpose the materials under the condition that original authors’ …
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Problem Solving in Teams and Groups
This textbook covers content relevant to COMS342: Problem Solving in Teams and Groups at the University of Kansas. Content in this textbook is adapted from The Open University, OpenStax, The Noba Project, and Wikipedia. Each chapter presents the source in the top header and each chapter has its own version of the Creative Commons (CC) license, noted at the bottom of the chapter. This book (comm…
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Overwhelmed by overflows?
This transdisciplinary volume investigates the ways in which people and organisations deal with the overflow of information, goods or choices. It explores two main themes: the emergence of overflows and the management of overflows, in the sense of either controlling or coping with them. Individual chapters show the management of overflows taking place in various social settings, periods and pol…
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