“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 ...

“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 ...

In a nationally representative EdWeek Research Center poll, 29 percent of math teachers said less than a quarter of their English learners can solve word problems on their own. If students spend ...

This site shows you how percentage word problems can be solved by drawing simple diagrams, and it provides assistance with word problems in other areas, such as pre-algebra, geometry and probability.

Seventh-grader Lydia Luquette works through a page of percentage word problems, while her younger brother, Andre', plots data points on line graphs on his laptop. The two Vermilion Catholic School ...