Word problems involve reading, executive functioning, problem solving, computation and vocabulary, which means there are a lot of ways for students to go wrong when trying to solve them.

Word problems can be cognitive puzzles that some students struggle to master.

Why students struggle with word problems Sometimes, students struggle with word problems because they don’t know where to start. Just reading the problem can be the first hurdle. If early ...

Students will learn to solve addition problems that add up all the way to the number 20.

Aki Murata, Karen Fuson, Teaching as Assisting Individual Constructive Paths within an Interdependent Class Learning Zone: Japanese First Graders Learning to Add Using 10, Journal for Research in ...

Key words can help first graders figure out whether to add or subtract more than half of the time, but the strategy rarely works for the multi-step problems students encounter starting in second ...

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 ...