@josiecrebsmccannedu
As an instructor in manufacturing technologies I consider problem solving to be a key issue for my students. We primarily teach problem solving through our math classes but I am finding it to be more and more difficult as we have students who are used to doing a web search to find the ansers to their problems rather than ever really considering the problems themselves.
I try to to teach intentionaly using both deductive and inductive reasoning paths to try and solve math problems. Then I bring in some shop based problems and ask them to use those same techniques to understand the nature of the shop problem. Some of them get very involved in the problem solving process and some of them just want the answer.
