How England’s 18,000 playgrounds revealed the country’s inequality. ... The graph below shows children’s playground provision for major ... as people become more aware of the problem, ...

This paper introduces a novel method that integrates structural information with training deep neural models to solve math word problems. Prior works adopt the graph structure to represent rich ...

How does poverty differ from economic inequality? Poverty is usually defined as not having the means to support basic nutrition, access to safe drinking water, shelter, education, and other needs.

Review of Wealth, Poverty and Enduring Inequality: Let’s Talk Wealtherty by Sarah Kerr (Policy Press, 2024). Introducing a new word into the English language is no easy task. A colleague of mine ...

Often, when I’m dealing with the Pythagorean theorem in middle school, I talk about a softball diamond or a baseball diamond, and there’s a word problem that I like to use with that.

Inequality isn’t the problem. Uneven growth is The focus should be less on the gap between rich and poor and more on how to ensure that economic gains are widely shared. Allison Schrager.

Economic inequality does feel unfair, but it has never been clear what economic problems it causes. Economists have traditionally argued that there is a trade-off between equity and growth.

Relying too much on key words can lead students astray, particularly because word problems get more complex as students go through school. Because these types of math problems require so many skills ...

“Word-problem solving in lower grades is one of the better indicators of overall school success in K-12,” said Lynn Fuchs, a research professor at Vanderbilt University. In a large national survey, ...

These strategies for teaching math word problems to ELLs can help clarify confusing language for all elementary and middle school students. Close. Edutopia. Menu. Topics. ... understanding and ...

While slower in solving problems, experts use this additional up-front time to more efficiently and effectively solve the problem. In one study, researchers found that experts were much better at ...

We can see why by looking at the work of a fellow traveller in the surge of interest in inequality – the Serbian economist Branko Milanović, who published Global Inequality in 2016. This introduced ...