“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 ...

Word problems aren’t often the focus of instruction ... less than half the time for single-step problems and less than 10 percent of the time for multistep problems. One evidence-based approach ...

“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 ...

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 ...