From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication ...

Siegbert Schmidt, Werner Weiser, Semantic Structures of One-Step Word Problems Involving Multiplication or Division, Educational Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Jan., 1995), pp. 55-72 ...

Mathematical word problem-solving skills are an important area to master during education, since these skills provide a basis for applying and combining mathematical knowledge in different situations.

This study investigates the relationship between skills that underpin mathematical word problems and those that underpin numerical operations, such as addition, subtraction division and multiplication ...

In a recent study from our research group, we looked into how different characteristics of mathematical word problem-solving tasks may influence elementary schooler’s performance.