Which of the following facilitates problem-solving skills among the students?

Option 1 : Analogical thinking

Problem-solving skills help students determine the source of a problem and find an effective solution. These are skills that help students identify and solve problems effectively and efficiently. Problem-solving is a process of overcoming difficulties that appear to interfere with the attainment of a goal.

  Some basic characteristics of problem-solving skills are-

• These skills don't have rigidity.
• Learners practices different activities, teamwork, and group discussions to improve their skills.
• The curriculum should be regulated as per the needs and the requirement of the students.
• Learners use different ways to gain problem-solving skills, their thoughts are divergent.
• The learner uses their analogical thoughts to solve a single problem in multiple ways.
• Different methods/functions are used by the teachers as well as learners, there is no fixedness in these skills.

Thus by all these references, we can conclude that analogical thoughts facilitate the problem-solving skill of the students.

Hint

• Functional fixedness is a characteristic where a person has a fixed mindset and is unable to visualize different functionalities of a particular object. It is not desirable for a problem solver.
• In the context of problem-solving, getting stuck on one way of representing a problem is called a response set.

  These are the steps to solve the problem:

• Identification of problem -We have to identify the problem before solving it.
• Analyzing the problem-  After the identification of the problem, we have to analyze the problem, so that we can figure out which, methods and steps we have to use to solve it.
• Evaluating-  After analyzing the problem, the evaluation of the correct step is required.
• Implementation- Once the Evaluation is completed execute the steps if the result doesn't come, again start by analyzing the problem.
•  It is important to the identification of the problem and ideas which we are going to follow to solve our problems rather than find the solution in the whole problem-solving technique.