The term "computer" used to be applied to humans that performed calculations by hand. It's still important for today's kids to still know how to, say, multiply without using their calculators (or ...

While problem-solving skills are not taught directly in the classroom, they are part of everyday life building skills. It is important to provide children real world examples and some rationale behind ...

Edla Prevette and Elizabeth Worley of Flip Educational Consulting offer a final tip this month on helping grade schoolers develop social skills. Today, Prevette talks about problem solving - an ...

By 2035, workforce forecasts suggest that digital fluency will be foundational across nearly every industry. As companies ...

Many school districts and policymakers are stepping up efforts to teach students the skills they need to be prepared for the jobs of the future. One big area of focus is STEM. Jobs in science, ...

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 ...

For each problem presented by a teacher or parent, kids have to offer two solutions – one adaptive and one innovative. By playing this game, it broadens the kids’ perspective on finding diverse ...

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 ...

Andrew J. Martin received funding from the Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (Grant # DP140104294) and an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant in partnership with The Future Project at ...