TRIZ Textbooks:  CID Course for Children, 3-1W1
Topic 1.  Methods of Solving Problems 
   (Contradictions, Ideality, and Resources)
Planet of Unsolved Misteries:
Course of Creative Imagination Development (CID), 3rd Grade, 1st Semester, Children Workbook
Natalia V. Rubina, 1998 [published in Russian]
English translation by Irina Dolina, June 3, 2001
Technical Editing by Toru Nakagawa, December 15, 2001
Published in this "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" in English on Dec. 17, 2001 under the permission of the Author. 
(C) N.V.Rubina, I. Dolina, T. Nakagawa, 2001

 
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Topic 1.  Methods of Solving Problems
 (Contradictions, Ideality, and Resources)
 

Guide-Book


Problem 1. 

  1. Author:
  2. Topic:  Ideality and resources.
  3. Content of the problem:  In order to leave his uninhabited island, Robinson Crusoe has been cutting a huge tree for a month.  It took several months to make a boat of this tree.  All the time Robinson tried not to think about the way how he was going to put this boat in the water.  When the boat was ready, it turned to be big, reliable, and ready to sail across the ocean; and then he couldn’t put this thought off any more.  The attempts to move the boat proved to be fruitless.  Robinson tried to act “vise versa” – to bring the water to the boat.  But when he calculated the amount of work he had to do, he gave up this idea.  What can be done in this situation?
  4. Solution:  –  ?
  5. Source of information:
1. Your ideas about solving this problem:
     ____________________________________________________________
     ____________________________________________________________
     ____________________________________________________________
    ____________________________________________________________

2. Choose the best:
    ____________________________________________________________
    ____________________________________________________________

On the basis of these ideas  articulate the contradictions.

If                  _______________________________________________________
Then  (+)   _______________________________________________________
But (–)      ____________________________________________________________

Find the opposite properties:

_______________should be ____________, in order to __________
                       and should be ____________, in order to __________.
Articulate the ideal solution:
__________________________________________________________
Which resources are there for the solution of this problem?
__________________________________________________________
Solution:
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________


If                  _______________________________________________________
Then  (+)   _______________________________________________________
But (–)      ____________________________________________________________

Find the opposite properties:

_______________should be ____________, in order to __________
                       and should be ____________, in order to __________.
Articulate the ideal solution:
__________________________________________________________
Which resources are there for the solution of this problem?
__________________________________________________________
Solution:
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________


If                  _______________________________________________________
Then  (+)   _______________________________________________________
But (–)      ____________________________________________________________

Find the opposite properties:

_______________should be ____________, in order to __________
                       and should be ____________, in order to __________.
Articulate the ideal solution:
__________________________________________________________
Which resources are there for the solution of this problem?
__________________________________________________________
Solution:
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________


If                  _______________________________________________________
Then  (+)   _______________________________________________________
But (–)      ____________________________________________________________

Find the opposite properties:

_______________should be ____________, in order to __________
                       and should be ____________, in order to __________.
Articulate the ideal solution:
__________________________________________________________
Which resources are there for the solution of this problem?
__________________________________________________________
Solution:
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
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