ProblemSolving

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[edit] Welcome to the Virtual Math Teams Problem Solving Wiki

This wiki is a place for people to create, test, discuss, and refine ideas about mathematical problems and ways to solve them (strategies). It is intended to be a permanent repository of information about strategies that can be used to approach many different kinds of problems in mathematics.

This wiki can be used by teams of students as a place to find interesting challenges (e.g. applying a new strategy to a known problem), to post their intermediate or final results, or to challenge other teams to work on a certain problem or strategy. Individual students can also use this wiki to learn new strategies described by others or find challenges that their teams can take on. This wiki can also be used by teachers in many ways.

Anyone can contribute to the wiki. There are many ways to do so. Here is how. For example, for the 2007 VMT Spring Fest you can click on the link to Probability problems below. Then pick a problem and a strategy to work on with your team in a VMT room. When you have come up with something, summarize it in your chat room Summary tab and then post it to your team's wiki page and then link it to the appropriate cell for the problem/strategy combination. See what other teams say about this problem and/or strategy. Comment on their postings with your team. Help us to develop an interesting wiki discussion about probability!

Btw, this is not a "Math wikipedia" as in "the last word" on all things math. Instead, is a place to wonder with other people about math problems, what makes a good one, why some strategies work so well with some types of problems and why they fail with others, and things like that. Below you will find some topics or clusters of problems. Feel free to add some more, but try to follow the same style used in the existing pages. (The VMT team, 2007)