problem solving exercises
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HERE ARE SOME FUN EXERCISES TO
GET YOUR BRAIN WORKING!
(Don’t move to the next slide until you’ve really become stumped)
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Puzzle: Copy the above image to paper. Draw no more than four straight lines (without lifting the pencil) and connect all nine dots. No back-tracking either.
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Here is one solution.
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Here is another………(using a very fat line indeed!)
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Here is another………(using scissors and tape)
What’s the point? Don’t assume constraints or limitsbased on cultural, emotional, or learned experience.
QUESTION YOUR PRESUMPTIONS !!!
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Here is another exercise:
Grab a pencil and pieceof paper. Draw the object
that is being describedto you.
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What’s the point?
Never assume that what you are attempting to expressis being expressed by the
appropriate mode of communication.
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Exercise # 3:
B S A I N X L E A T N T E A R S
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Exercise # 3:
“Cross out “six letters” so that the remainingletters without altering their sequence,
will spell a familiar word.”
B S A I N X L E A T N T E A R S =B A N A N A
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Exercise # 3:
What’s the point?
Nurture the ability to see and hear ambiguity
(which will usually lead you tothe second right answer).
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Exercise # 3:
“Cross out six letters so that the remainingletters without altering their sequence,
will spell a familiar word.”
B S A I N X L E A T N T E A R S =
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Exercise # 3:
“Cross out six letters so that the remainingletters without altering their sequence,
will spell a familiar word.”
B S A I N X L E A T N T E A R S =L E T T E R S
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