Stage 5: Justify thinking. A vital habit that many students need to solidify is recontextualizing after they solve ...

Word problems are often described as “math stories” and can put complex mathematical operations into a more approachable form for students. But students often struggle when they see a combination of ...

In fourth grade, students focus most on using all four operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division - to solve multi-step word problems involving multi-digit numbers. Fourth-grade ...

Word problems try and tell students a story about the math problem in front of them. They are a useful way to connect abstract numbers to concrete situations, so students can learn early on to apply ...

NARRATION:Back in the deepest, darkest depths of time, there lived a great mathemagician called Hypatia. Numbers fell under her spell one by one. With them, Hypatia could do anything. Now Hypatia is ...

The Journal of the Learning Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 2 (1997), pp. 183-226 (44 pages) A form of socially assisted group learning based on a modified version of reciprocal teaching for mathematics ...