Background: Most Grade 3 teachers experience challenges when teaching addition and subtraction of word problems in a multilingual classroom that is being taught in the vernacular language. Objectives: ...

Educational Studies in Mathematics presents new ideas and developments of major importance to those working in the field of mathematical education. It seeks to reflect both the variety of research ...

Join Mrs. Gray for Numeracy Talk with Dotson working on conservation to 10. Join Mrs. Gray for Numeracy Talk with Dotson working on conservation to 10. Get your math brain ready as we will have some ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...