Story problems can help young learners grasp math concepts, but teachers must design and scaffold them carefully.

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 ...

Word problems involve reading, executive functioning, problem solving, computation and vocabulary, which means there are a lot of ways for students to go wrong when trying to solve them.

Word problems can be especially challenging for English learners, students with disabilities, or those who struggle to read at grade level. If students can’t break down what a word problem is ...

Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 41, No. 2 (May 2016), pp. 442-465 (24 pages) In view of solving nonsmooth and nonconvex problems involving complex constraints (like standard NLP problems), we ...

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 ...