Monograph,  No. 7,  Publications,  Teaching Ideas

We Have This Problem with the Hall Lockers

Monograph No. 7: Problem Solving in the Mathematics Classroom

April 1982

Publication of the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association

95 – 100

We Have This Problem with the Hall Lockers

James E. Riley

One of the problems of problem solving i s finding good problems to solve. A good problem is one that does not yield an obvious solution. A good problem can be modeled or solved by analogy.