Step 1: Read (and reread) the word problem. First, encourage students to read the word problem in its entirety, in order to ...

I n education circles, early literacy — such as ensuring all children are reading by third grade — gets a lot of attention, and rightfully so. Early reading skills have been s ...

some of which they hear nowhere outside of the math classroom. These students have difficulty understanding written or verbal directions or explanations, and find word problems especially ...

Nobel Prize winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, a husband and wife research team at MIT, documented how teenage street sellers who were excellent at mental arithmetic weren’t good at ...

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To support teachers and students in the exploration of the mathematical concepts contained in the Small Number stories, we are creating a series of classroom resources based ... a volunteer in the ...

Researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the University of Cologne have unveiled an innovative AI-driven ...

Alarmingly, this achievement gap in math ... of background, have an equal opportunity to succeed so we progress to a more equitable and just society. That increased success in the classroom ...