Math word problems can be tricky because they involve more than just numbers. You need to read and understand the problem, figure out what math operation to use, and solve it. This can be overwhelming ...

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.

Students would be better off if algebra teachers began their lessons with word problems, according to a recent study covered by my colleague Sarah Sparks, rather than waiting to present them until ...

Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

The implementation of the Explicit Feature Extraction (EFE) Reasoner, a model designed to improve reasoning about numerical magnitudes in math word problems. This repository contains the code, data, ...