The "elephant in the room" describes an obvious, difficult or unpleasant truth known to all present, but which everyone conspires to ignore or avoid discussing. It represents a significant issue—a ...

Physicist Albert Einstein famously posited that if he only had an hour to crack a daunting problem, he'd devote 55 minutes to understanding it and only five minutes to crafting a solution. Einstein ...

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 ...