In a nationally representative EdWeek Research Center poll, 29% of math teachers said less than a quarter of their English ...

Not only will hard problems likely not be as difficult, but they will also be less common. Nathan Houser leads the defense and national security practice at Deloitte Consulting LLP.

If the problem you are solving isn’t inherently hard, that’s a huge problem in itself, for a number of reasons. The biggest problem is that you immediately lose your competitive advantage.

Essentially, when presented with difficult problems, people who tried to solve them immediately and those without rest fared worse than the people who had the opportunity to sleep on their answers ...

When most people think about math problems, we think back to algebra class, geometry, or for the real showoffs, trigonometry. For true mathematicians, however, things get much more complicated ...

THIS is a collection of numerical and mathematical exercises in electrical engineering, starting from the most elementary beginning and ending in the more difficult problems presented by the ...

This article also appeared in print, under the headline “Radical Solutions for Difficult Problems,” in the October 2, 2006, issue.