CID Course, Workbook 3-2-2. Topic 2 Practice Work on Solving Problems

TRIZ Textbooks: CID Course for Children, 3-2W2
Topic 2. Practice Work on Solving Problems
Planet of Unsolved Misteries: Course of Creative Imagination Development (CID), 3rd Grade, 2nd Semester, Children Workbook
Natalia V. Rubina, 1998 [published in Russian] English translation by Irina Dolina, June 17, 2001 Technical Editing by Toru Nakagawa, February 17, 2002
Published in this "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" in English on Feb. 19, 2002 under the permission of the Author. (C) N.V.Rubina, I. Dolina, T. Nakagawa, 2002

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Topic 2. Practice Work on Solving Problems

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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:
     __________________________________________________________
     __________________________________________________________
     __________________________________________________________

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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Appendix 1. Card Index of the Problems
Modeling with Smart Little People

Problem 1.

1. Author:         Altshuller G. S.
2. Topic:            Modeling with Smart Little People
3. The content of the problem:
The plant was ordered to produce a batch of oval glass plates one mm thick. The rectangular plates were cut but it was impossible to make them oval: thin glass was breaking. Thicker plates were not needed. The products had to be thick and thin at the same time. This contradiction has to be divided in time: let the plates become thicker during the processing. How to do it?
4. Solution:         ?

5. Source of information: “And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared".

Problem 2.

1. Author:         Altshuller G. S.
2. Topic:            Modeling with Smart Little People
3. The content of the problem:
Once a new car “Volga” stopped on the road. The driver explained to the passenger:
"We have a problem. There is no gasoline in the tank. I’ve forgotten to check it."
"Things like that may happen", said the passenger with a sympathy. "Those devices are not reliable. Sometimes a pointer is still far from a zero mark but the tank is already empty. I wish a tank could transmit by telepathy the information to the driver that it is nearly empty…"
And at this point the Inventor appeared.
"We can do without a telepathy", he said. "I have an idea…"
What did the Inventor suggest?
4. Solution:         ?

5. Source of information: “And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared".

Problem 3.

1. Author:         Altshuller G. S.
2. Topic:            Pattern of Solving Problems
3. The content of the problem:
At a laboratory a new diamond tool for processing was being devised. The tool was perfect, but its manufacturing was very complicated. Small diamonds, shaped like pyramids, had to be put with their tops up by hand.
"Ten thousand pyramids, and we have to install them all by hand." complained the clerks. "This work has to be mechanized."
"We thought about it," said the head of the laboratory. "But we couldn’t devise anything."
And at this moment the Inventor appeared.
"This is a sophisticated problem." he said. "It is necessary to recollect a method…"
What method do we need to recollect? How to mechanize the process of installing diamonds?
4. Solution:         ?

5. Source of information: “And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared".

Appendix 2. Smart Little People

     CONTEST!
     CONTEST!
     CONTEST!

We have come to the last page of our unusual workbook.

Now we have to carry out one more very important assignment. Choose an activity which you liked the best (a fairy tale, a picture, or a problem) and send it to us to the following address:
185014. Petrozavodsk, mail box.8, OO “TRIZ- Karelia”, to Rubina N.V.

The most interesting of them will be included in the collection of your works, telling about the adventures of your favorite characters: Colabo, Losharic, Emil, Deli-Davai and other inhabitants of our workbook in Fantasy City.

[End of Workbook 3-2]

[End of the whole Course]