Kyle Hausmann is a Content Developer at Knewton. If the background sound of your dreams over the last month has been the endless blowing of vuvuzelas, then you either have a really annoying neighbor or you are caught up in World Cup fever. At Knewton, we thought we could tie some of the football fanfare [...]

Below are two brutal GMAT questions — one math, one verbal. Answers will be discussed by our expert team of teachers in our interactive classroom live on Monday night at 9pm EDT. One lucky student will receive the Knewton GMAT course free during the webinar! Answer the 2 brutally hard challenges in comments below and [...]

In an earlier post, I discussed Dan Meyer’s visionary talk about the future of math education. Halfway through the talk, Meyer mentions a classic problem in which students must determine how long it takes to fill a tank with water. A typical textbook would give students all (or most of) the necessary pieces and then [...]

Nate Burke is a Content Developer at Knewton, specializing in GMAT prep. In Part I of this series, I talked about approaching wordy GMAT questions as a businessperson would–by carefully reading these questions the first time around in order to absorb all information. The following GMAT problem has inspired me to expand this approach questions [...]