For a long time, I purposely did not include lists like this on my site–lists of things like math word problem IEP goals. I refrained from putting math goals because struggling in math is usually ...

Word problems in mathematics are a powerful tool for helping students make sense of and reason with mathematical concepts. Many students, however, struggle with word problems because of the various ...

Prodigy, a mathematics gaming company, recently made 120 examples of math word problems for students in grades 1-8 available to teachers at no cost. Approximately 16 million students, teachers and ...

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.

During my time as a learning support math teacher, I always had a daily word problem on my board for students to work on when they first walked into my classroom. To be completely honest, this ...

A Missouri school district is now making its math curriculum more gender inclusive, updating word problems and other language-based math equations with "they/them" pronouns. As presented in a Webster ...

Recent research has demonstrated that prompting language models to generate reasoning steps can improve performance on various natural language reasoning tasks. But how to supervise such models? Is it ...