Topic 00 -- Problem Solving Strategies

• Introduction (link)
• systematically organize information (link)
• rewrite the problem (link)
• abstractify to essential information (link)
• reduce the problem to a previously solved problem (link)
• break the problem up into cases (link)
• process of elimination (link)
• exploit symmetries (link)
• targeted guess and check (link)
• draw a figure (link)
• algebraify (link)
• use toy examples to find patterns (link)
• generalize the problem (link)