Do you stare at a math word problem and feel completely stuck? You're not alone. These problems mix reading comprehension ...

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 ...

Four years ago, Marquies Gray Jr. and his younger brother, Mason, were struggling to solve math problems. Their mother, Lavonzell Nicholson, enrolled them in a tutoring program called Make It Count ...

Researchers tested a research-based intervention with English learners with math difficulty. The intervention proved to boost comprehension and help students synthesize and visualize information, ...

Circle to Search can now help students with homework, making it easy to search for instructions and answers without leaving the digital homework screen. Later this year, Circle to Search will be able ...

If Ms. Smith’s 8th grade algebra class works through 10 word problems in an hour, and Ms. Jones’ class works through 10 equation problems during the same time, which class is likely to learn more math ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. When Nicole Thompson teaches a math word problem to her fourth grade class in Pajaro Valley Unified, she has the class read it over three ...

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

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 ...

On a simple math task - indicating which of two amounts is greater - kids with math learning disability get the right answer ...

A dad who turned to AI for help with his son's math homework got an unexpectedly hilarious response, and his wife told Newsweek how she managed to film the magic moment. Julieta Meza from Orange ...

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