This study investigates students' approaches to contextual word and story problems. It shows that problems in school mathematics do not become contextual by embedding them in more descriptions of ...

The arithmetic task consisted of 48 arithmetic problems, distributed across two booklets of 24 problems each. The problems were constructed according to two dimensions. The first dimension was ...

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 ...

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