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 ...

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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 the page.

Local police went above and beyond, though there was a slight glitch. — -- Police across the country are used to solving puzzles, but one Ohio police department recently got a plea for help from ...

Education professors have shown that a comprehension-based strategy can help English learners improve their math word-problem solving abilities. The approach boosts reading comprehension and problem ...

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, ...

Today in advice we didn’t think would ever require repeating: Teachers, it is never a good idea to use dead slaves as units of measurement in your math problems. On Thursday, NY1 revealed the story of ...

A fourth grade teacher at PS 59 just wanted to inject some social studies into her math assignment, but now she’s in hot water with parents and administrators after student teacher Aziza Harding ...