"A problem solver must know his mind and an athlete must know his body in about the same way as a jockey knows his horses. I imagine that a jockey studies horses not for the sake of pure science but to make them perform better ..."
What specific ideas from this class can you list that enable you to perform better because you as a problem solver know your mind better and thus have better problem solving ability? Explain each idea to someone who has not taken the class. Explain how it helps you to perform better or can help you to perform better.
How does the three step problem solving approach and the metaphor of Venkman, Stantz and Spengler help you in the future in "attaining an aim which was not immediately attainable".
Which Ghostbuster first sees the green slimer (... and calls it a disgusting blob)? Which Ghostbuster tries to get an instrument reading from a hotel guest, then pushes the guest's shoulder, thinking that the guest might possibly be a ghost and be part of the problem they are trying to find and solve? What does Dr. Raymond Stantz say in response to Venkman and the news that Venkman had just been slimed? Venkman was lying flat on his back there on the 12th floor of the Hotel Sedgewick? What does Dr. Egon Spengler say when he hears the news?
P is the Present State and G is the Goal State. What does the Comparator represent? What is an OPERAND? How is an OPERAND the opposite of ACTION or operator. Figure 8.1 diagram is from GoalDirectedLearning.pdf resource.
Some discussion of the meaning of the terms in the diagram: operand.txt on verbs and nouns, work and product of work, solving slimer problems and tranforming the reality of life at Hotel Sedgewick by Ghostbusters problem solving.
Problem solving scene in the ballroom of the Hotel Sedgewick. And "The Flowers are Still Standing!"
Operand is a noun, a thing. Hotel Sedgewick with slimer ghost. Operand is something that gets changed. Operand is something that gets transformed. Hotel Sedgewick with slimer gone. The slimer is entrapped, taken back to Ghostbusters headquarters and placed in the Ectocontainment System. Action is a verb, an act. Ghostbusters solving the problem. Ghostbusters team working, using their tools, getting first successful experience at problem solving, at ghostbusting, dealing with slimers and unlicensed nuclear accelerators and entrapment devices.
Amazon.com link to A Mind For Numbers book.
Using First Pages and/or Surprise Me! from the Look Inside amazon.com tool, find a paragraph of the book that most connects with you and quote it in full.
VIP: Be sure to write it out neatly enough an clearly enough in Pen or Pencil so it can be used in the group presentation, and also so that members of your group can look at it and brainstorm about it.
Write down (quote it in its entirety) a paragraph that you find especially interesting or relevant. It will be a paragraph that might add to your understanding of the topics in problem solving and GB, PW, DWW and Growth Mindset, Fixed Mindset and Coaching the Artist Within and so on for the class.
You will share this paragraph with your group on 05/05/Thursday during the preparation for your group presentation. It should be written legibly enough with PEN or PENCIL so that it could be placed on the camera/elmo during your group presentation.
Write down (quote it in its entirety) a paragraph that you find especially interesting or relevant. It will be a paragraph that might add to your understanding of the topics in problem solving and GB, PW, DWW and Growth Mindset, Fixed Mindset and Coaching the Artist Within and so on for the class.
You will share this paragraph with your group on 05/05/Thursday during the preparation for your group presentation. It should be written legibly enough with PEN or PENCIL so that it could be placed on the camera/elmo during your group presentation.
Note: All 8 key takeaway's are available on the Look Inside pages - First Pages - pages 6 and 7 list them.
Write out word for word the key takeaway
that seems most relevant for you or for the group presentation/group discussion on May 5th.
Discuss and/or explain why you chose this one.