This repository provides a solution to the standard Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (CVRPTW). In a CVRPTW, we aim to optimize the routes of a fleet of vehicles serving customers ...

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Practical word problems are often considered one of the most complex parts of elementary school mathematics. They require students to understand the context of a math problem, identify what the ...

Storytelling and mathematics don’t naturally go together. The best way to spark a discussion about a math topic in a classroom can be unpopular with many students: solving word problems. Word problems ...

Abstract: This paper investigates the equivalence between a class of mixed-integer linear and linear programming prob-lems. By utilizing the addition of slack variables theorem, we demonstrate that ...

In Central Falls, R.I., teachers are trying new strategies that move away from focusing on “key words,” the traditional, simplistic approach that often leads younger students astray CENTRAL FALLS, R.I ...

Problem solving is important to many activities, both in a learning context and in everyday tasks. We can be challenged to solve what later turn out to be very simple problems. By understanding more ...

Since the open-pit precedence-constrained production scheduling problem is an NP-hard problem, solving it is always a challenging task, especially from a long-term perspective because a mineral ...

For a long time, I purposely did not include lists like this on my site–lists of things like math word problem IEP goals. I refrained from putting math goals because struggling in math is usually ...

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, ...

Abstract: This paper presents a tabu search-based heuristic solver for general integer linear programming (ILP) problems as a dependable alternative to branch-and-bound (B&B) solvers. It aims to ...