Word problems try and tell students a story about the math problem in front of them. They are a useful way to connect abstract numbers to concrete situations, so students can learn early on to apply ...

Creative problem-solving can be an exhilarating experience. You get a triple benefit: the euphoric 'aha' moment of solving a puzzle, the pride of accomplishing a goal, and the deeper self-discovery of ...

If you want to accentuate the importance of a problem, it seems sensible to explain how prevalent it is. Lots of people are at risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Lots of women carry a gene that makes them ...

1 School of Computer and Software Engineering, Xihua University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China 2 School of Statistics and Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada Influence maximization (IM ...

If you want to get people’s attention to address a problem, making it seem as big as possible is a nearly universal reflex. Across more than a dozen experiments, they find that describing how big a ...

Problem-solving therapy (PST) helps individuals manage stress by breaking down challenges into practical, manageable steps. The aim of the therapy is to help people cope more confidently with ...

Abstract: This paper is the first to investigate an Active RIS (ARIS)-assisted FD-NOMA system and to formulate a sum rate maximization problem. To address this problem, we propose an alternating ...

As Martin Wolf’s book titled The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism succinctly and powerfully details, the survival of democratic freedoms is hanging by a thread. Conspiracies threaten to take global ...

Alan Veliz-Cuba has received funding from the Simons Foundation and the American Mathematical Society for some of his research. You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an ...

For the past month or so, you could hardly log onto any social media platform without hearing Laila!‘s TikTok-viral single “That’s Not My Problem.” The song became so popular online, that Cash Cobain ...