Your child continues to use tape diagrams as a visual tool to solve word problems. Your child continues to use tape diagrams as a visual tool to solve word problems. Now, he solves for an unknown ...

Forty-five first graders were categorized into three levels according to their informal strategies for solving addition and subtraction word problems. They were taught to write canonical and ...

Pearla Nesher, Tamar Katriel, A Semantic Analysis of Addition and Subtraction Word Problems in Arithmetic, Educational Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Oct., 1977), pp. 251-269 ...

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Word problem “key words” charts abound on lesson-sharing sites like Teachers Pay Teachers. These graphic organizers are designed to remind students which math words signal different operations.

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 ...