Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.

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Good puzzlers don’t fall in love with their hypotheses. They keep their beliefs provisional, open to new evidence. They embrace the eraser and delete key. A. J. Jacobs is an editor for Esquire. As a ...

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