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Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.

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Remember the principal who spent a night on the roof of Coolidge Elementary after daring his students to hit one million math ...

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 ...

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