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 ...

People of all ages experience word-finding difficulties — those inconvenient "brain blips" that occur when you cannot retrieve the word you really want to say. There are few things more frustrating ...

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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 ...

Greig de Zubicaray receives funding from the Australian Research Council and National Health and Medical Research Foundation. We’ve all experienced that moment mid-sentence when we just can’t find the ...