When watching children at a tutoring school, I notice some students whose hands suddenly stop moving when they reach math word problems.It is not that they cannot do calculations at all.It is not that ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

Word problems try and tell students a story about the math problem in front of them. They are a useful way to connect abstract numbers to concrete situations, so students can learn early on to apply ...

My child can do calculation problems, but goes blank when it comes to word problems.They can solve systems of equations. They can also do basic linear function problems reasonably well.But when it ...

Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...