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Over the weekend, my husband was at a local coffee shop and the change he received for his large hot mocha included a two-dollar bill. The bill was crisp and[…]

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Yesterday, as I was eating breakfast, I watched a few segments of the Today Show. And I happened to catch a segment about keeping your kids engaged while they are[…]

Suppose that you have just introduced your 7th grade students to the basic concepts in geometry and one of your students happens to ask you the following question: “Will I[…]

According to Malcolm Gladwell, innovators can be classified into two distinct groups depending on whether they are “conceptual” or “experimental”. A very typical conceptual innovator was Pablo Picasso, who had[…]