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How often have you pondered a problem like this? A hot air balloon flies at a speed of (n + 8) miles per hour. At this rate, how long will it take to fly (n2 + 5n - 24) miles? Those kinds of questions ...

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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 apply ...

We all mix up words or have slips of the tongue sometimes, but there are times when jumbled speech represents a more serious neurological or psychiatric condition. In such cases, the phenomenon is ...

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 ...