There is a general sense that programming is related to math and that people who are successful in math are often successful at programming. For math teachers, a natural question arises: “What is the ...

Stage 5: Justify thinking. A vital habit that many students need to solidify is recontextualizing after they solve ...

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 ...

After more than 24 years of coaching, I've noticed that teams and organizations still use traditional problem-solving techniques despite these being either obsolete or ineffective. For example, ...

YMCA students assembled Makeblock's mBot robot during a week-long training on human-centered design. When students at the Homewood-Brushton YMCA are gone for the weekend, an app-controlled robot can ...

The third grade TAG students at Whitehall and Radix in Monroe Township are hard at work improving their problem solving skills. In this challenge, the students had 100 note cards and 12 inches of tape ...

I’ve been rereading, in greater depth, Art Smalley’s book Four Types of Problems. Art and I first worked together about 25 years ago on the transformation of Chrysler. It went from near bankruptcy to ...