And in a small but growing number of classrooms, teachers like Molina are working to change that. “With word problems, there are more struggling learners than non-struggling learners” because they are ...

They take this number and this number and they add them together or they take them apart.” This is one of the biggest challenges in word problem-solving, educators and researchers agree ...

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 ...

It plays a central role when students attempt to solve math word problems ... word problems: A verbal emphasis strategy that taught students to underline questions, circle numbers or cross ...

students were bored by “word problems,” but in the new era they are challenged by “math situations.” And where a pre-enlightenment teacher might advise students to “borrow” a number ...

These students have difficulty understanding written or verbal directions or explanations, and find word problems especially difficult to translate. Difficulty Comprehending the Visual and Spatial ...

And in a small but growing number of classrooms, teachers like Molina are working to change that. “With word problems, there are more struggling learners than non-struggling learners” because ...