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 the page.

"I can do the calculations, but I can't solve word problems."I have met many children who say that.While creating my own math diagnostic content and reviewing hundreds of logs of word problems, I ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...