Problem Solving, Working Backwards, and Graphic Proof Representation

• exposé - matière potentielle : full proof problems

This article was published in Teaching Philosophy, 23(2), June 2000. Changes in the current version are documented at the end under CURRENT VERSION UPDATES Problem Solving, Working Backwards, and Graphic Proof Representation ã Marvin J. Croy The University of North Carolina at Charlotte Newell and Simon's seminal Human Problem Solving (1972) characterized a problem in terms of a goal state, a starting state, and a set of transition rules which define legitimate transitions from one state to another.

• rules of transition
• intermediate states
• proof construction
• goal expression
• ds ds
• particular attention to the method
• rules
• errors
• rule
• problem