Combinatorial thinking

What is combinatorial thinking?
Combinatorial thinking is used to refer to a person's ability to solve combinatorial problems. It is interesting that it represents a kind of transitional form from figurative thinking to abstract-logical thinking, and also vice versa. it includes a variety of elements: motivational, operational, content, abstract-logical and imaginative.

On the development of combinatorial thinking
The urgency of the development of combinatorial thinking can be considered from several sides, however, each of them is in one way or another directly connected with logic:

First, the development of combinatorial thinking is necessary for the simple reason that the traditional education system pays little attention to logical thinking. The result of this is that, for example, in schools, students make many logical errors, and adults often experience problems in the logical organization of information. Combinatorial thinking helps to eliminate all this.

Secondly, the development of combinatorial thinking forms a person's ability to search for optimal combinations of components of different situations, and in completely different spheres of activity (from communication to doing business), allows to find a variety of possible options that can be based on individual elements of situations, The likely consequences of such combinations.

Combinatorics
In the life of each of us from time to time there are tasks that can be solved in several ways. And to do it correctly, it is very important to take into account all these methods.

Combinatorial thinking and mathematics
A special place for solving combinatorial problems is, as has become clear, in mathematics, and the role of this skill is becoming more serious. The reason is that such tasks have tremendous potential for developing thinking in general and for learning to solve problems in ordinary everyday life.