Abstract: Programming remains a dark art for beginners. The gap between how people speak and how computer programs are made has always made it hard for people to become programmers. Learning all the ...

During my time as a learning support math teacher, I always had a daily word problem on my board for students to work on when they first walked into my classroom. To be completely honest, this ...

This repository provides a solution to the standard Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (CVRPTW). In a CVRPTW, we aim to optimize the routes of a fleet of vehicles serving customers ...

My husband is Black. I am white. For the past couple of years, we’ve been living on the family farm in the Midwest for a few months a year, to make sure the pipes don’t freeze, keep the vermin down, ...

Article Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to ...

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 ...

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, ...

A new study from the University of Kansas explores the role of working memory in word problem-solving for students with and without math difficulties. Researchers found that using interventions to ...

Gear and clutch problems in the Osprey have killed more than a dozen troops in recent years, leading to groundings of the tilt-rotor aircraft. (Sgt. Armando Elizalde/U.S. Marine Corps) The Navy has ...

In 1970, when the Apollo 13 mission pilot said, "Houston, we've had a problem," he was asking NASA's Johnson Space Center for help. Fast forward four decades to 2010, and the Johnson Space Center was ...