The teacher can seldom afford to miss the questions: What is the unkno…

George Polya
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The teacher can seldom afford to miss the questions: What is the unknown? What are the data? What is the condition? The student should consider the principal parts of the problem attentively, repeatedly, and from from various sides. ✨ George Pólya (1957). How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method
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