Problem-Solving

Structured Problem Solving provides students with a process for solving a complex, content-based problem within a specified time limit. All members must agree to a solution and must be able to explain both the answer and the strategy used to solve the problem.

Students with poor problem solving solving skills have difficulty at one or more stages of the problem-solving process. Thus CoLT helps students because it breaks the process apart into specific steps. Thus, students learn to identify analyse, and solve problems in an organised manner. Rather than feeling overwhelmed by the magnitude of a problem, this activity gives students a format so that they have a place to begin. By providing them with a series of manageable steps, it keeps students from going astray or engaging in irrelevant steps.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCoPbbLQ5m4
• http://madisoncollege.edu/in/structured-problem-solving