Stage 5: Justify thinking. A vital habit that many students need to solidify is recontextualizing after they solve ...

To solve basic math operations — and more complicated ones down the road — kids need problem-solving skills and number sense. Number sense is the ability to understand what numbers mean, how they ...

Here's the thing about math that nobody tells you: it's less about memorizing formulas and more about knowing which tools to ...

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

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.

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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 ...

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 ...

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