Improving problem solving.

[Alex K]

I dunno... When I did higher maths at Uni, it simply took loooooong hours to come up with proofs, maybe 10 hours per sheet. Finding solutions to problem types you haven't seen before can take time. If you try long enough you will develop a better sense of how to approach new ones. Often it boils down to really clearly understanding what are the givens (be it numbers for a calculation, or theorems for a proof) and what the thing you want to show/calculate is exactly.