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In response to popular demand, the free tool to help you get yourself in order - the Idea Sandbox Prioritizer - is now available for the iPhone! Yay! It’s a wicked-simple tool to use, and will help you prioritize ANY list of items.

[Photo by Andy Hay.] In addition to all the funny Google searches, I get plenty of normal inquiries about math topics. People come here looking for help with fractions, word problems, and math club activities — no surprise, those — but I would never have predicted the popularity of the search topic

October 5, 2008 at 9:37 pm | In Business, Professional Development | Tags: Business, problem solving OK, so maybe not someone who knows absolutely nothing, but it may be a good time to connect with someone who has a fresh perspective on your problem.

Managing to Learn: Using the A3 management process to solve problems, gain agreement, mentor, & leadPublished by the Lean Enterprise Institute, John Shook has a new book (available now) on the A3 problem solving process and on Lean leadership.

October 4, 2008 in Elementary Math Problem Solving, Problem of the Week (POW) | by Todd Trimble Another problem of the week has been long overdue. Here’s one that may appeal to those who liked POW-5 (maybe we should have an integration problem every fifth time?): Evaluate Please submit solutions

The Queen of Style by Caralyn Buehner and Mark BuehnerI haven't done this in a while - sat down with a stack of promising-looking picture books and reviewed them regardless of whether or not I particularly like them.

Questions: What is gender? What is the importance of gender? Is it useful? Does it hinder people? What does this say about feminism? read more

A mastermind group is a voluntary collection of like-minded people committed to helping one another by actively working on solving one another’s problems, sharing knowledge of techniques and personal experience and providing mutual support.

I’ve received several requests to write something about the apparent financial crisis in the USA, not to mention the upcoming election. Erin has received similar requests. At first I declined because so much is being written about this already, but people said they just wanted to hear my take on it,

Last week I went to a 2-day workshop on interest based problem solving, which is basically alternative dispute resolution negotiation. The goal was to teach us skills, vocabulary and structure for dealing with problems before they get blown into major disasters like grievances and disciplinary actions.