Science Why schools are teaching math word problems all wrong Teachers are trying new strategies that move away from focusing on ‘key words.’ Sarah Carr / The Hechinger Report Jul 15, 2024 8: ...

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 ...

A more effective instructional strategy for word problems is utilizing math-talk summaries/paraphrases. Start by modeling some examples and then move into paired practice.

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.

Learning Disability Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 2 (MAY 2020), pp. 75-87 (13 pages) The purpose of this review is to determine the evidence base classification of schema-based instruction (SBI) as an ...

A Missouri school district is now making its math curriculum more gender inclusive, updating word problems and other language-based math equations with "they/them" pronouns. As presented in a ...

Sylvia Weber-Russell, Mark D. LeBlanc, Learning by Seeing by Doing: Arithmetic Word Problems, The Journal of the Learning Sciences, Vol. 13, No. 2 (2004), pp. 197-220 ...

Andy Weir, the author of the best-selling book The Martian, which is now a film starring Matt Damon, says his novel is a collection of word problems that teachers can use in the classroom.

In an example, Pichai showed how the AI can learn Bengali from English the same way it learned how to solve math-word problems.

Education professors have shown that a comprehension-based strategy can help English learners improve their math word-problem solving abilities. The approach boosts reading comprehension and ...