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Learning and Development: Problem Solving - Quick thinking
Nursery World,
2 January 2008
The role of the practitioner in children's problem solving is to pose challenges and prompt them with occasional questions and suggestions, but not provide the answers for them, says Margaret Martin.
There are a number of definitions of problem solving, and they all link the ability to solve problems with the range of thinking skills: enquiry, information processing, reasoning, evaluation, and creativity as well as problem solving. The skill of problem solving engages us in building on known concepts, knowledge and previous experience, and using these in new ways to find solutions and answers which may not at first seem...
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