One approach to early elementary word problems that is taking off in some schools, including Segue Institute, has its origins in a special education intervention for struggling math students.

Related: Kindergarten math is often too basic. Here’s why that’s a problem So, with the help of a trainer doing work in Rhode Island through a state grant, Molina and some of her colleagues revamped ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off ...

This strategy for differentiating instruction can help increase elementary and middle school students’ involvement in their ...

Math word problems require literacy, math, and executive function skills from young children, so mastering them is key to later school success. Credit: Philip Keith for The Hechinger Report The ...

The cognitive flexibility that comes from being multilingual can give students a boost in math—if teachers know how to build ...

More information: H. Lee Swanson et al, The mathematical word problem-solving performance gap between children with and without math difficulties: does working memory mediate and/or moderate ...

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. By comparison, PaLM 2, without any special prompting ...

One approach to early elementary word problems that is taking off in some schools, including Segue Institute, has its origins in a special education intervention for struggling math students.

A new study from the University of Kansas explores the role of working memory in word problem-solving for students with and without math difficulties. Researchers found that using interventions to ...