How does a revolution start? Sometimes, it鈥檚 a simple question. For Sarah Powell, an associate professor of special education at the University of Texas at Austin, the question was this math problem: Donna and Natasha folded 96 paper cranes. Donna folded 25 paper cranes. How many did Natasha fold?
In a study, Powell posed that question to children at the end of third grade, when they should have been able to answer it easily. Instead, most couldn鈥檛 solve it. One underlined 11 words in the question but didn鈥檛 attempt any math.
