Students need to work multiple levers of their brains to unpack a word problem. That’s why these problems can be a challenge for English learners or those who struggle to read or have a learning ...

Sylvia Weber-Russell, Mark D. LeBlanc, Learning by Seeing by Doing: Arithmetic Word Problems, The Journal of the Learning Sciences, Vol. 13, No. 2 (2004), pp. 197-220 ...

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 ...

Learning Disability Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 2 (MAY 2020), pp. 75-87 (13 pages) The purpose of this review is to determine the evidence base classification of schema-based instruction (SBI) as an ...

Word problems involve reading, executive functioning, problem solving, computation and vocabulary, which means there are a lot of ways for students to go wrong when trying to solve them.

"Word problem-solving is influenced by both the science of reading and the science of math. Key components include number sense, decoding, language comprehension and working memory.