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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 the page.

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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.

The old "two trains traveling at 60 miles per hour in opposite directions" style of math word problems is less effective at training students than is dealing with abstract concepts, such as finding ...