Education Week

Ditch Those Math Worksheets. The Case for Teaching Real-World Problem Solving in K-5

The designers for Monte Vista Elementary School’s proposed outdoor classroom had some key questions to answer: What materials could they use while staying under the district’s $10,000 budget? How much ...
Rochester Institute of Technology

Problem-solving and learning in complex environments

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 ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Promising Practices in Undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics ...

The primary purpose of the October workshop was to thoughtfully examine the evidence behind a select set of promising practices that came to light during the June workshop. Susan Singer opened the ...
The Harvard Crimson

Students, Faculty Reflect on 100 Years of Harvard Business School’s Case Method

This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the case study teaching method being introduced at Harvard Business School, pictured here.By Kareem M. Ansari Teruo Yabe, the new general manager of Tessei ...
Education Week

U.S. Students Score Above Average on New Problem-Solving Test

U.S. 15-year-olds scored above average on a first-of-its-kind international assessment that measured creative problem-solving skills. However, their mean scores were significantly lower than those ...