problem solving

When his best friend, Gloria, receives a new bike, Julian spends the summer avoiding her because of his fear of bikes.

Jenny Chow struggles with chopsticks-aiya, those slippery, oh-so-tricky chopsticks! But cousin Victor's birthday party is just around the corner, along with her family's annual chopsticks challenge. Jenny doesn't want to be the only Chow who never learns how to use the utensils. She'll do whatever it takes to prove she can hold her own in her family's long-held tradition-no matter how many experiments she wobbles and fumbles through.

Learn about the engineering design process used by engineers and what they do when they encounter a problem.

Learn about solving engineering problems, technologies, the design process, and more.

Humans begin to acquire cognitive abilities before birth with the growth of the fetus. Research shows that, as the fetal brain develops, so too do cognition and perception.

A historical context to psychology, the science of mind and behavior, provides an understanding of the richness and complexity of the subject.

The study of human intellectual development is concerned with the structure of the brain's processes and how people take in, sort, and use information.

Beatriz loves to fix old things and build new things. She's a master with her tool set and she's got a brain to match! But Beatriz comes face to face with her biggest challenge yet: a dog with only three legs. Beatriz makes a plan to build a special dog wheelchair, but the challenge proves to be harder than she expected. Will the obstacles be too great, or can Beatriz solve the problem and save the day?.

After a young boy asks for help in doing various things throughout the day, he expresses his gratitude to those who came to his aid.

While working on a project for an after-school club, Julia, a Korean American girl, and her friend Patrick learn not just about silkworms, but also about tolerance, prejudice, friendship, patience, and more. Between the chapters are short dialogues between the author and main character about the writing of the book.