Lateral and Vertical Thinking

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Lateral and Vertical Thinking
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Why are 1999 pennies worth more than 1989 pennies?
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Why are 1999 pennies worth more than 1989
pennies?Because you have 10 more!
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Vertical Thinking defining a problem in only
one wayLateral Thinking defining a problem in
multiple ways
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Some Examples

• Alexander Graham Bell
• Colonel Sanders
• Karl Jansky
• Percy Spencer
• Spence Silver

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What are four halves of eight?
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What are four halves of eight? 1/2 of 8 4 44
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What are four halves of eight?
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What are four halves of eight?
1/2 of 8 8 or 4 halves of 8 0000
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What are four halves of eight?
1/2 of 8 8 OR 3 4 12
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Lets Do Some Plexors!
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