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

This video addresses Common Core Grade 3 Standard Operations & Algebraic Thinking. WSKG is here to help you help your child understand the basic concepts of the common core curriculum with our Good To ...

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.

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

The American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 107, No. 3 (Autumn, 1994), pp. 423-439 (17 pages) Students in 11th grade (N = 208) were assessed twice on the solution of algebraic word problems that ...

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 ...

We illustrate a method, which is modeled on "breaching experiments," for studying tacit norms that govern classroom interaction around particular mathematical content. Specifically, this study ...

We spend the greater part of our childhood and much of our early adulthood in the classroom. But the skills we learn there don’t often apply to our work life. Being good at solving algebra word ...

Number problems often involve a combination of fractions, decimals, percentages and ratio. They can be set in a real-life context. A framework can be used to tackle these problems. Solving 'graphical' ...