Approach can help English learners improve at math word problems Tool boosted scores, improvement; is available for educators Date: June 19, 2018 Source: University of Kansas Summary: Education ...

“When students struggle [with word problems], it tends to be everything else they have to do to get to the calculation,” said Brian Bushart, a 4th grade teacher in the West Irondequoit schools ...

Teachers can employ several strategies, like using different visual representations, to make word problems more approachable, said Kevin Dykema, the immediate past president of the National ...

RI EDUCATION Schools are teaching math word problems all wrong. But some educators have found a better way. In Central Falls, R.I., teachers are trying new strategies that move away from focusing ...

The phrase achieved the top accuracy score of 80.2 percent in tests against GSM8K, which is a data set of grade-school math word problems.