If there are nine people in a room and every person shakes hands exactly once with each of the other people, how many handshakes will there be? How can you prove your answer is correct using a model ...

Workforce readiness skills. Employability skills. Professional skills. Soft skills. 21 st century skills. It’s no secret that we are in a time where skills, whatever you want to call them, are at a ...

Students get to share their favorite family recipes and practice their problem-solving strategies in this engaging math project.

It turns out that teaching kids problem solving may be among the most promising and proven practices to prevent bullying and reduce the odds of victimization. It is a strategy often overlooked, but ...

Transfer of math, physics, and communication skills into the entry-level photonics workforce, NSF Award 1432578, Sept 2014 – Aug 2019 Exploring factors that shape education & workplace training on ...

Aidan McGowan explains how converting practical coding ‘labs’ into a series of short videos taking students through the problems step-by-step has improved learning outcomes The 1980s band The Buggles ...

Rather than a digital transformation, universities should undergo a learning transformation that supports evidence-based teaching, argue Carl Wieman and Bror Saxberg The disruption of higher education ...

This article provides an outline of an instructional design strategy for improving problem-solving performance in a variety of domains. The strategy emerges from a series of instructional improvement ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article reports on a study that investigated the teaching of mathematical problem solving from a teacher's perspective. The study focused ...