Kevin Dykema, a math expert, shares strategies for teachers to help students tackle word problems.

Word problems try and tell students a story about the math problem in front of them. They are a useful way to connect abstract numbers to concrete situations, so students can learn early on to ...

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.

It can be taught how to solve math-word problems, and even how to translate a different language.

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