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Math is one of those things that unites all of us: students with their homework to do, teachers with their lesson plans, and ...

Learn why word problems are especially tricky for some students and what to do about it; how students build procedural fluency as they move from concrete to abstract mathematics; how to ...

How often do teachers talk to students about multiple strategies, and how to select them, in math problem-solving? Students in the [United States] are very rarely doing rich contextual 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.

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 ...