These student-constructed problems foster collaboration, communication, and a sense of ownership over learning.

At six, a boy from South Korea makes solving complex math problems such as gamma functions and Euler's functions appear as easy as playing a game of tic-tac-toe. Meanwhile, this writer struggled to ...

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 ...

Solving word problems is a key component of math curriculum in primary schools. One must have acquired basic language skills to make sense of word problems. So why do children still find certain word ...

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