RE: Improving problem solving.
December 6, 2016 at 2:50 pm
(This post was last modified: December 6, 2016 at 2:54 pm by purplepurpose.)
(April 10, 2016 at 8:52 pm)Alex K Wrote: 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.
Neil deGrasse Tyson, told in interview, something like this "process of problem solving in math by itself changes neuron networks in brain and thus improves the ability of brain to solve problems, even if you don't use math you know at all, your brain after being "trained" by math problems will preform much better at completing completely new tasks".
Alex K, can you please comment on his statement. Sorry for being lazy and not digging the google for actual scientific proofs of that statement.
