Kevin Dykema, a math expert, shares strategies for teachers to help students tackle word problems.

Science Why schools are teaching math word problems all wrong Teachers are trying new strategies that move away from focusing on ‘key words.’ Sarah Carr / The Hechinger Report Jul 15, 2024 8: ...

How often do teachers talk to students about multiple strategies, and how to select them, in math problem-solving? Students in the [United States] are very rarely doing rich contextual problems.

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.