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I have always understood trick questions to be questions that either involve
a special method that the solver is]]> Sep 11, 2010 12:49:53 PM Sep 11, 2010 12:49:53 PM Jonathan Groves 0 Re: Trick questions. http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7189907&tstart=0#7189907 ]]> Sep 10, 2010 2:23:21 PM Sep 10, 2010 2:23:21 PM victor.steinbok@verizon.net 1 Re: Trick questions. http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7189729&tstart=0#7189729 Sep 10, 2010 11:24:47 AM Sep 10, 2010 11:24:47 AM anne.watson@EDUCATION.OX.AC.UK 0 Trick questions. http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7189720&tstart=0#7189720 mathematics.

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A mathematics]]> Sep 10, 2010 11:00:09 AM Sep 10, 2010 11:00:09 AM sangwinc@for.mat.bham.ac.uk 3 Re: New Post at RME: Who Was George Polya's Intended Audience? (Or More Mathema http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7089446&tstart=0#7089446 Jun 6, 2010 3:54:37 PM Jun 6, 2010 3:54:37 PM mikegold@UMICH.EDU 0 Polya's Ideas Modernized (Sent on Behalf of John Mason) http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7088874&tstart=0#7088874
Here is a reply I have received from John Mason, who had wanted to send this message to the mathedu list but could not since he was]]> Jun 5, 2010 2:30:00 PM Jun 5, 2010 2:30:00 PM Jonathan Groves 0 Re: New Post at RME: Who Was George Polya's Intended Audience? (Or More Mathema http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7088413&tstart=0#7088413
Michael Paul Goldenberg's blog post is mainly about Polya's heuristic
methods of problem solving and of approaching]]> Jun 4, 2010 11:38:31 PM Jun 4, 2010 11:38:31 PM Jonathan Groves 1 Re: New Post at RME: Who Was George Polya's Intended Audience? (Or More Mathema http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7088361&tstart=0#7088361 seem to be unaware that Polya wrote "How to solve it"
for a general audience, and then wrote
"Mathematics]]> Jun 4, 2010 9:18:10 PM Jun 4, 2010 9:18:10 PM tangora@uic.edu 3 Re: New Post at RME: Who Was George Polya's Intended Audience? (Or More Mathema http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7088355&tstart=0#7088355
Here is a link that Michael had sent me that shows their claim about
Polya's book intended for math majors or graduate students]]> Jun 4, 2010 9:05:23 PM Jun 4, 2010 9:05:23 PM Jonathan Groves 8 New Post at RME: Who Was George Polya's Intended Audience? (Or More Mathema http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7086216&tstart=0#7086216 Jun 2, 2010 4:40:27 PM Jun 2, 2010 4:40:27 PM mikegold@UMICH.EDU 9