12. Warming up on Problem Solving Part II

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• Can a student "learn" how to problem solve, or can one teach problem solving?
• Under what conditions can problem solving be learned or taught?
• Do textbooks teach problem solving?
• What heuristics do you find most important for students to learn in a calculus class?
• How would mathematics instruction, in general, have to change in order to implement problem solving skills and ideas? Would these changes be different at each grade level?
  

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