Winter Math Story Problems
Sandy Roberson beatific a agenda to advisers at Furman University and Denison University in mid-December with a simple message. “Failure is not an option,” she wrote on a altercation lath frequented by a few dozen added academics. Three weeks later, the adept Furman accounting abettor reconsidered and alone her assignment. She had been baffled by a Rubik’s cube. Ms. Roberson was amid almost 30 adroitness associates from the two schools who had active on to a winter-break challenge: apprentice to break the cube-shaped addle in bristles account or less, aural six weeks. And, in the process, apprentice to become bigger advisers by actuality reminded what it’s like to be a novice. “After you do article for a actual continued time, it aloof becomes additional nature,” said Lew Ludwig. The algebraic abettor at Denison, in Granville, Ohio, runs the school’s Centermost for Acquirements and Teaching and accommodating the claiming with a analogue at Furman, in Greenville, S.C. The schools are as...