Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.

A member of our research community, Terhi Vessonen and her co-authors, looked into how different characteristics of mathematical word problem-solving tasks may influence elementary schooler’s ...

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In a recent study from our research group, we looked into how different characteristics of mathematical word problem-solving tasks may influence elementary schooler’s performance. Mathematical word ...

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 ...

Researchers tested a research-based intervention with English learners with math difficulty. The intervention proved to boost comprehension and help students synthesize and visualize information, ...

Melting and freezing are both physical changes, which are often easy to reverse. To reverse this process, the water would need to be cooled enough until it freezes back into ice. This works because ...