Educating students to become successful problem solvers has been a goal of education at least since Dewey. However, the kinds of problems students do in school to practice their problem-solving competence have little to do with the problems they will need to solve in everyday settings. We briefly critique traditional conceptions of problem solving, propose a different framework for theorizing problem solving, describe how innovative curriculum design was informed by this new conception, present a case study of problem solving in one of these curricula, and summarize research findings from our classrooms that support the new conception of problem solving. L’un des buts de l’enseignement a été, du moins depuis Dewey, de montrer aux élèves à r...