SolvingTips

The most common way to solve an open-ended is to make a t-chart. On one side, you put all of the work you do to solve. On the other is you would write the explainations and reasoning for the work. When solving an open-ended problem you will first have to find certain information useful to finding the anwer. Any subordinate information can be eliminated and forgotten. Once the important information is found, you can separate them and solve the problem.