For the study, researchers worked with 207 third grade students with and without math difficulties to see how working memory influenced their abilities to solve word problems.

Story problems can help young learners grasp math concepts, but teachers must design and scaffold them carefully.

The intervention proved to boost comprehension and help students synthesize and visualize information, which improved the students' math world problem-solving skills.

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