12. Open-Ended Problem Solving
The vast majority of problems you see in school are “well-structured.” Most of the problems in this book are of this type. They are problems that are presented to us with all of the information needed to solve them, have no irrelevant or redundant information, have one correct answer, and usually one demonstrated “best” solution path. Success in school usually depends on one’s ability to answer these types of problems.
However, the problems that people encounter in their lives are seldom so “well-structured.” Instead, we usually have to identify the problems ourselves; they may be thrust upon us by necessity, but ...
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