Story problems can help young learners grasp math concepts, but teachers must design and scaffold them carefully.

For the study, researchers worked with 207 third grade students with and without math difficulties to see how working memory influenced their abilities to solve word problems.

Just hearing the F word can cause kids (adults too) to freak out. And if you think about it, there are lots of reasons students feel flummoxed by fractions. For one thing, there's the misleading ...

The purposes of this study were to (a) investigate the efficacy of a core fraction intervention program on understanding and calculation skill and (b) isolate the effects of different forms of ...

It has trouble with word problems, but if you can write down a word problem in math notation it shouldn’t be an issue.

One hundred twenty-eight children in Grades 1, 2, and 3 were given two multiplication and four division word problems that differed in semantic structure. The children's solution strategies were ...