HOW CAN YOU TEACH PEOPLE
HOW TO SOLVE UNSOLVEABLE PROBLEMS?
. . . FOR COLLEGE HISTORY CREDIT?
“THINKING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX”
a stand-alone, open entry/open exit
six-credit, college tutorial
designed to teach history students
how to use history to solve
here-and-now problems.
The tutorial comes with a down loadable text,
midterms and pop quizzes.
The software is owned by and available from Steven C. Levi
A SAMPLE OF THE SOFTWARE CONTENT CAN BE FOUND
ON THE BACK OF
THIS SHEET!
LET'S SEE HOW CLEVER YOU ARE?
A wealthy horse racer is worth $20 million and has 18 horses. In his will he divided his cash estate among his children, business partners and local charities. He divided the 18 horses in this manner: ½ of the horses to his son, 1/3 to his daughter and 1/9 to his favorite charity. Alas, when he died, so did his most beloved stallion. Now there are 17 horses to be divided three ways. You have been assigned to make the division. How to do give all three their due without cutting up any horse?
“Charging Off the Trail” page 7
You are the principal of a high school. Over the Halloween weekend some of your students ‘borrowed’ a crane and dropped a pile of old automobile tires around the flag pole. You now have 20 feet of tires around the flag pole and the Home Coming game is on Friday night. You don’t have the time to rent a crane, it’s too dangerous to use a chain saw, too slow to use acid, too hard to find the individuals responsible and too expensive to hire a helicopter. It’s Monday afternoon. What are you going to do?
Don't Change Tactics; Change Tools, page 2
Wyatt Earp, noted gunslinger and tireless self-promoter, could be a very clever man. Long after his gun fighting days he was hired by a bank in Los Angeles to do things the police could not or would not, like crossing the border into Mexico to apprehend bank robbers. One day he was called upon to help stop a run on the bank. There was a fear that the bank would go under and leave the depositors penniless. As the fear spread, more and more people showed up outside the bank until there was an unruly crowd on the sidewalk demanding their money. The crowd began to get ugly. What did Earp do?
Know Your Audience, page 5
One legislative session Governor Huey Long demanded that the Louisiana Legislature pass an appropriation for a road he wanted. But the Legislature wanted to show Huey who was boss. They didn't like the way he was running the Louisiana government as if it was his private fiefdom. They were going to teach him a lesson he would not soon forget. He wanted a road? Fine. They'd give him the road. Half of it, anyway. Then he'd have to come back the next session and beg for the other half of the funding. So they funded 50% of the road. What they did not expect was for Huey to turn that problem into a profit for himself. How did Huey Long turn half a road into a profit?
Make a Profit from your Problems, page 5
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