Math isn’t just about answers—the process matters, too. These strategies spotlight reasoning and reveal student thinking.

To understand why classrooms look so different today, it helps to trace how teaching methods have evolved. From the rise of ...

A math word problem is a narrative with a specific topic that provides clues to the correct equation with numerical quantities and variables therein. In this paper, we focus on the task of generating ...

Practical word problems are often considered one of the most complex parts of elementary school mathematics. They require students to understand the context of a math problem, identify what the ...

This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...

MathBot is a transformer-based Math Word Problem (MWP) solver made as the Lab project for CSE 4622: Machine Learning Lab.

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.

Math word problems can be tricky because they involve more than just numbers. You need to read and understand the problem, figure out what math operation to use, and solve it. This can be overwhelming ...

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Math word problems require literacy, math, and executive function skills from young children, so mastering them is key to later school success. Credit: Philip Keith for The Hechinger Report The ...

In Central Falls, R.I., teachers are trying new strategies that move away from focusing on “key words,” the traditional, simplistic approach that often leads younger students astray CENTRAL FALLS, R.I ...