Math Stories (Grades 1-8): Help the Cat in the Hat, the Three Little Pigs and other storybook characters solve word problems in this collection of more than 4,000 problems submitted by students ...

Creating opportunities to talk about math builds understanding and strengthens language development for all ...

From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication facts or encourage creative strategies to solve problems? The answer, ...

The effects of schema-based instruction on the mathematical word-problem-solving performance of students with learning disabilities. Journal ofLearning Disabilities, 29, 422-431. doi: 10.1177 ...

Students at the South Park school aced math. Until they hit algebra. Their struggles — and how the school tackled them — are a case study for school districts plagued by the same problems.

In the summer of 1975, math prodigy Tanya Khovanova was approached by a teacher named Valera Senderov, who had managed to ascertain a list of these problems, and asked to help solve them.

Rather than equipping kids to compete with computers by solving the same types of problems over and over again, let's challenge them to solve new problems and become the leaders of tomorrow.

Mathematics is solving problems,” said Bethany Rittle-Johnson, a professor of psychology and human development at Peabody College in Vanderbilt University, who studies math instruction.