Two multi-ethnic workers working in a plastics factory, standing on the factory floor, looking at the control panel of one of the machines. The African-American man is pointing to the panel. His ...

Rob De La Espriella is the creator of BlueDragon, a problem-solving system used by the US national laboratories and nuclear facilities. United States businesses are silently hemorrhaging trillions of ...

Start with trust and end with speed. When it comes to solving complicated problems, the default for many organizational leaders is to take their time to work through the issues at hand. Unfortunately, ...

In recent years, the artificial intelligence (AI) landscape has shifted from quiet curiosity to relentless noise. Conference taglines, vendor solicitations, and slide decks all seem to begin with the ...

To learn math, students must build a mental toolbox of facts and procedures needed for different problems. But students who can recall these foundational facts in isolation often struggle to use them ...

Too many companies launch new products or services without a process for deeply understanding what their customers truly need. They make assumptions, rely on limited feedback, or develop ideas based ...

Mathematicians excel at handling complexity and uncertainty. Mathematical reasoning strategies aren't just useful for dilemmas involving numbers. We can apply math mindsets to improve our approach to ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...