Integration:

Work as a team and build on our ideas

This means we should work together and share all our ideas to find one solution. This helps us because we achieve more than working on our own. (Two heads are better than one.)

There is an expression “The whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts”. This means that even though there are thirteen of us, together we can achieve much more.

Application:

Learn new skills and use what we already know to solve our problems

The difficult part here can be knowing what we need to learn and knowing how we need to learn it.

Analysis:

Break a problem down into smaller parts

This is the same as “divide and conquer.” This makes it easier to solve a problem because if we break a problem down into smaller problems then they are easier to solve. DESCRIBE BEATING THE ARMY… Break the problems down 1 by 1.

Synthesis:

Combine different facts, ideas and skills to create something new or original

This means putting all our ideas and facts together to create something bigger and better. It is also about reusing what other people find out because it‘s quicker.

Evaluation:

Make decisions about why things are good and how things can be improved.

This means ask questions like:

How we are doing? Where to from here?

This will make our ideas even better. It is important to evaluate because then we know what we have done and how to make things better. If we didn't evaluate then we wouldn't know if we had done anything wrong.

Overall, the aims: These aims help us work together better as a team, create bigger and better ideas and get lots more results.