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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.

Why isn’t this working? I’ve told them how to do it five times and they are still getting it wrong. Do these statements sound familiar? If your team keeps running into the same problems and you’ve ...