Stage 5: Justify thinking. A vital habit that many students need to solidify is recontextualizing after they solve ...

From classifications of word problems in international discussion of elementary mathematics instruction as well as from conceptual elaborations of didactical analyses in Germany, a classification of ...

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Jan., 1985), pp. 3-17 (15 pages) Arithmetical operations were assumed to remain attached to primitive behavioral models that influence ...

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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Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

Four Wappingers elementary students are multiplying up to 384-digit numbers in school. These students, who are in the district's math enrichment program, are getting creative with math theory to solve ...

Remember those word problems you dreaded in your middle-school math class? “We’ll never use that in real-life” we all thought. Well, we couldn’t be more wrong. No, this isn't about figuring out at ...