some of which they hear nowhere outside of the math classroom. These students have difficulty understanding written or verbal directions or explanations, and find word problems especially ...

When children are presented with a math word ... thus, problems are equally difficult to pin down. Educators do, nevertheless, identify sets of expected milestones for a given age and grade ...

A sharp improvement in math proficiency by Buffalo Public Schools' economically disadvantaged third graders last year ...

to make word problems more approachable, said Kevin Dykema, the immediate past president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and an 8th grade math teacher in Mattawan, Michigan.

The Deadliest Woods,” Kyden Robinson, Matamoras Elementary A man was stranded in the woods, it was dark and spooky. Then ...

The math-learning platform founded by Neelakantha Bhanu, the world’s fastest human calculator, is making big strides in ...

In the fall of 2019, four high schools in a San Francisco Bay Area district shook up many of their ninth grade math classes. Students had traditionally been separated into more than five math courses ...

The researchers started with the GSM8K's standardized set of 8,000 grade-school level mathematics word problems ... set saw a performance drop between 0.3 percent and 9.2 percent.

Four years ago, Marquies Gray Jr. and his younger brother, Mason, were struggling to solve math problems. Their mother, ...

A North Carolina House committee recommends overhauling the state’s system for grading schools — a system that publicly assesses a letter grade to every school and ... That was down from about a third ...

That approach doesn’t take in very much information, so math can do very little with it and therefore makes mistakes. The basic problem is that ... their second and third choices, and so on.

This might sound impossibly old-fashioned, but I still like the idea that education is about learning: facts, skills, ...