How many hours did they hire the van for? First we need to put this information into an equation. \(x\) is the number of hours they hired the van for. This is what we have to find. Their total bil ...

Word problems often either come too late in a lesson or are disconnected from students’ reality. They are cognitively challenging—a student needs to translate the words into a number equation ...

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 ...