Good problems
2012 February 12
I was recently reading Polya’s How to Solve It and came across this gem:
Good problems and mushrooms of certain kinds have something in common; they grow in clusters.
I guess I’ve always known that good problem writers recognize abstract qualities of problems and re-use them but this nice way Polya puts it has helped me take the time to recognize and exploit promising problem clusters. It has greatly improved my assessment-writing process and as a bonus, when I come up with or find a problem I like, I get a craving for chanterelles.
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