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 ...

Schools around the country are integrating the teaching of problem solving and entrepreneurial thinking into STEM instruction in some very creative and relevant ways. Many of them are also ...

The upcoming Designathon will help students devise creative and applicable solutions to everyday problems. The second annual Designathon, hosted by Bruin Entrepreneurs, will be held Saturday in ...

After completing your next Wordle, and before moving on to one of its myriad variants, stop for a moment to consider what you might be learning from this simple daily routine, and how these lessons ...

What's the best way to teach problem solving? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by ...

There is a lot of discussion in the United States about how to help people come together to solve the complex problems facing the nation and the world. As a scholar of games, I see opportunities for ...

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 ...

Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

When my son was a baby, I swore I’d never let him watch PAW Patrol. At the time, I thought of it as the kind of TV show I didn’t want my child to become obsessed with: noisy and overstimulating. But ...

Credit: Sarah Jelbert/PLOS One/CC BY 4.0 Did that crow just figure out how to get food out of that tube? Yeah, it did. What do you notice about what it did before getting the food? Why did it select ...