Kevin Dykema, a math expert, shares strategies for teachers to help students tackle word problems.

Word problems involve reading, executive functioning, problem solving, computation and vocabulary, which means there are a lot of ways for students to go wrong when trying to solve them.

It can be taught how to solve math-word problems, and even how to translate a different language.

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 ...

RI EDUCATION Schools are teaching math word problems all wrong. But some educators have found a better way. In Central Falls, R.I., teachers are trying new strategies that move away from focusing ...