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.

Suppose the Three Little Pigs Huff-and-Puff-Proof Housing Co. sent you to the hardware store to purchase enough bricks for five model houses. If each wall requires 100 bricks, how many bricks should ...

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Researchers tested a research-based intervention with English learners with math difficulty. The intervention proved to boost comprehension and help students synthesize and visualize information, ...

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Vol. 33, No. 5 (Nov., 2002), pp. 319-351 (33 pages) The study reported here investigated the arithmetical and algebraic problem-solving strategies and ...

If North Carolina high school junior Katie Denton struggles with her Algebra 2 homework, she knows she’s not on her own. Denton can use her school-issued smartphone to send instant messages to her ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/1511165 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/1511165 Copy URL The purpose of this study was to explore middle school students' (N = 54 ...

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 problem ...