Total Creativity

If it can't be done, let's do it.
By Manuel de la Herrán Gascón
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Problem solving strategies - Rules of creativity

• Analyze the extreme cases.
• Start solving a similar problem easier.
• Derive and draw conclusions.
• Decomposing the problem into small problems (to simplify).
• Draw a diagram, a diagram, a diagram.
• Beginning at the end (to the problem solved).
• Trial and Error.
• Choosing appropriate language, appropriate notation.
• Experience and draw patterns (induced).
• Make conjectures and try to prove them.
• Make diagrams, charts, drawings (representation).
• Experiments, observing, looking for patterns, regularities
• Make a count of the elements of the problem.
• Imagine that the conditions or states of the problem lie elsewhere.
• Induction.
• Manually manipulate and experiment.
• Pigeonhole principle.
• Reformulating the problem.
• Solve problems like (analogy).
• Taking advantage of symmetry.
• Following a method (organization).
• If there is a difficult part, begin the hard part.
• If there is an easy part, start with the easy.
• If we have a recipe and we are confident that fits the problem, apply it.
• Simulating (modeling the problem and experiment with the model)
• Assume that it is not (reductio ad absurdum).
• Suppose the problem solved.
• Use a suitable method of expression: verbal, algebraic, graphic, numeric (coding, expression, communication).