A Quote by George Polya

The teacher can seldom afford to miss the questions: What is the unknown? What are the data? What is the condition? The student should consider the principal parts of the problem attentively, repeatedly, and from from various sides.

George Polya

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George Polya
Hungarian - Mathematician
December 13, 1887 - September 7, 1985

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