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.

Students aren’t necessarily missing the math, they’re missing how to make sense of the problem itself. Once we see ...

Helping students to develop math fluency takes more than just flash cards. It requires teaching them how to think about ...

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 ...