Aims and objectives of this section

This section will help you to:
  • understand what is meant by a problem solving activity
  • understand how to analyse a problem and identify the critical factors.

By the end of this section, you should be able to:
  • identify a complex problem that can be used as a problem solving activity for the purposes of this section
  • break this problem down into at least four critical factors
  • identify the relationship between factors
  • develop an overall approach to a problem solving activity.