Practical word problems are often considered one of the most complex parts of elementary school mathematics. They require students to understand the context of a math problem, identify what the ...

Abstract: We introduce an approach that automatically learns to solve algebra word problems. Our algorithm, a pioneering result for this task, reasons across sentence boundaries. It constructs and ...

Problem solving is important to many activities, both in a learning context and in everyday tasks. We can be challenged to solve what later turn out to be very simple problems. By understanding more ...

MATH is not an easy subject. For many, the corollary conclusion is that learning math is unavoidably unpleasant. Test results support that view. The Trends in International Mathematics and Science ...

For most people, the word "algebra" conjures classroom memories of Xs and Ys. Weekend Edition's math guy, Keith Devlin, says that's because most schools do a terrible job of teaching it. He talks with ...

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Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...