The science not always offers ready formulas for the solution of tasks. There are such tasks which solution depends only on common sense, ingenuity and sharpness of the one to whom they are set. The solution of tasks on sharpness helps to develop non-standard of thinking and attention. Therefore such tasks should be included in the school program for children from the youngest age. Even having matured, you can meet tasks on sharpness. They can quite be offered during the interview at employment, or on testing at entering a higher education institution. As to solve them?
Instruction
1. First – attentively read a task. Analyze each condition and a statement – they are right or not. Often the answer of a task to sharpness lies on a surface and becomes obvious if the discrepancy of a statement of the problem with reality is found. For example: "On a pine five apples, on a birch – two apples. How many did apples grow on these trees?" The answer – any since apples on these trees do not grow.
2. Secondly – be attentive when visually you submit the picture described in a task. The task often purposely confuses guessing. For example, the known task about cats: "In the room four corners. In each corner sits on a cat. Opposite to everyone – on three cats. How many cats only?" For the solution of this task do not try to multiply four by three, and just submit visually the picture – four cats sit on corners and each of them sees three girlfriends. Means cats only four.
3. Thirdly – do not constrain the thinking in a certain framework, release it. The non-standard of thinking often helps to find a way out in a tangled situation. For example, there is such riddle: "From under a fence ten chicken pads are seen. How many hens stand behind a fence?" The correct answer – five. But if your child answers – ten hens standing on one pad, praise him and be glad non-standards his logicians. In general, solving such problems with the child, be never limited to receiving from it only the answer. Always be interested in its logic, how it reached this decision. Often children find such answers and solutions which will not come to mind to any adult because children's thinking is not held down by stamps and conventions.
4. And, at last, the fourth council: think, solve, compare the facts and analyze them, draw conclusions. The nature distinguished with ability to it people from all living beings. So do not lose this ability, perfect the mind, do not allow it "to rust".