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General Method of Creative Problem Solving: 'Six-Box Scheme'

Toru Nakagawa (Osaka Gakuin University, Professor Emeritus)

Talk at Wada Saloon #141, Yokohama Science Frontier High School, Yokohama, on Dec. 1, 2014

Posted: Jan. 8, 2015 ( Full description in Japanese, but only a short introduction in English)

Posted::  Apr. 12, 2015 (Slides in English translation)

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For High school students, and For Students, Citizens, and Engineers (Toru Nakagawa, Apr. 8, 2015)

The 20 slides shown below were presented to voluntary 1st-year students at a High school in Yokohama, in my talk for 60 minutes.

'Inventions' and 'Enlighenments' sound big and difficult.  However, when we meet some trouble in our daily life, we should just think over it and make various trials, and we would find quite a new idea for overcoming the difficulty.  It is the most basic way to study science and technology and to master the capability of invention.

Please read the slides and think over the simple problem 'How to make a knot with short string at the end of sewing'.
The slides explain how to think for reaching step-by-step new solutions (or (small) inventions).   It would be easier for you to understand if you attended at the talk ...

 

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General Method of Creative Problem Solving: 'Six-Box Scheme'

Toru Nakagawa

 

1.  Introduction to Creative Problem Solving

 

 

 

2.  A Simple Case Study in Everyday Life

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.  Six-Box Scheme

 

 

4.  Concluding Remarks

 

 

 


Editor's Note (Toru Nakagawa, Jan. 7, 2015)

This is a talk presented to a dozen of highschool students at Yokohama Science Fronteer High School (YSFH) on Dec. 1, 2014.  I was Invited by the Super-Advisor, Professor Akiyoshi Wada (Professor Emeritus of The University of Tokyo), to talk at his voluntary educational & communicative class named 'Wada Saloon'. 
Using 20 slides I gave a talk with many small excercises on Creative Problem Solving Methods for just 60 minutes.  To the high school students, I tried to give a general view of how to think and solve problems creatively, by the demonstration and excercises on my favorite case study 'How to make a knot with short string at the end of sewing'.

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Editor's Note (Toru Nakagawa, Apr. 8, 2015)

Sorry for so much delay to post the slides in English translation.  I hope you find these slides are useful for young people to understand how to think widely and deeply and to solve familiar problems to get new solution ideas. 

Yokohamain Science Fronteer High School (YSFH) was established by Yokohama City and opened in April 2009.  It has been designated a Super Science High School (SSH) and Super Global High School (SGH) by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). Please refer its Web site written in English: http://www.city.yokohama.lg.jp/kyoiku/sidou2/koukou/sfh/english/ .

 

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