In a nationally representative EdWeek Research Center poll, 29% of math teachers said less than a quarter of their English ...

One approach to early elementary word problems that is taking off in some schools, including Segue Institute, has its origins in a special education intervention for struggling math students.

Kevin Dykema, a math expert, shares strategies for teachers to help students tackle word problems. Word Problems Get a Bad Rap in Math Class. Here’s How to Get Them Right ...

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.

Education professors have shown that a comprehension-based strategy can help English learners improve their math word-problem solving ... straight through from kindergarten to 12th grade," Orosco ...

When Nicole Thompson teaches a math word problem to her fourth grade class in Pajaro Valley Unified, she has the class read it over three times. After the first read, students discuss with a partner ...

CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. — When Natalia Molina began teaching her second grade students word problems earlier this school year, every lesson felt difficult. ... In a large national survey, for instance, ...

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 ...