Wendy Monroy is a Mathematics Coach for the Los Angeles Unified School District in Los Angeles, California and is a member of the Instructional Leadership Corps, a collaboration among the California ...

A problem doesn't last a lifetime. But how you deal with it can make it linger for years without resolution. In my studies about the topic, I've identified that, in addition to everything that ...

A few basic procedures can make the difference between bad and good meetings. Then, for the most valuable problem-solving or joint sense-making meetings, do these three things: Keep focus on helping ...

At a middle school in California, the state testing in math was underway via the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) exam. A girl pointed to the problem on the computer screen and asked ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

Problem solving in business, in general, and marketing, in particular, is a complex process that generally requires the input of many with all seeing different sides of the same problem. Within the ...

Nobody should be so short-sighted or so old-fashioned as to write off the power of being able to fill knowledge gaps on demand. Yet this phenomenon is often attributed to a growing critical thinking ...

From the time you were a child, you've been solving problems. The problems started out small but then grew in complexity as you developed in ability, progressing from jigsaw puzzles and mathematical ...