Key words can help first graders figure out whether to add or subtract more than half of the time, but the strategy rarely works for the multi-step problems students encounter starting in second and ...

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Solve word problems involving multiplication and division of numbers within 100. Example: The second-grade class and third-grade class were collecting old cell phones to recycle.

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 ...

Solving 2-Step Word Problems | Grade 3. Special | 2m 23s. WSKG is here to help you help your child understand the basic concepts of the common core curriculum with our Good To Know video series!

Some problems have no key words at all. In a 2022 paper, ... A student works a problem in a second grade math class at Place Bridge Academy, May 20, 2025, in Denver.

For the study, researchers worked with 207 third grade students with and without math difficulties to see how working memory influenced their abilities to solve word problems.

Michael J. Orosco, Deborah K. Reed. Supplemental intervention for third-grade English learners with significant problem-solving challenges. Learning Disabilities Research & Practice , 2024; 39 (2 ...

“With multi-step problems, key words don’t work 90 percent of the time,” said Sarah Powell, a professor at the University of Texas in Austin who studies word problems and whose research has ...

RI EDUCATION Schools are teaching math word problems all wrong. But some educators have found a better way. In Central Falls, R.I., teachers are trying new strategies that move away from focusing ...