Toward the end of their new book “Creative Confidence,” the authors describe how to solve problems using mind maps — diagrams used ... You might think mind mapping where to take your kids ...

Here we look at a function as a mapping diagram. The inputs to the function g are along the real number line a the top, the outputs of g are on the real number line in the middle. The green point A ...

Counting will get you nowhere. Try a little combinatorics instead. By Kenneth Chang A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a viral math problem — 8÷2(2+2) = ? — that drew the disdain of many ...

"Humans use relational statements fluidly to describe things, solve problems, indicate causality, and weigh moral dilemmas." The new model builds on psychologist Dedre Gentner's structure-mapping ...

Called the structure-mapping engine (SME), the new model is capable of analogical problem solving, including capturing the way humans spontaneously use analogies between situations to solve moral ...