Give Cindy Cliche a math word problem, and she can tell you exactly where most students are going to trip up. Cliche, the district math coordinator in the Murfreesboro City school district in ...

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 ...

I call them problems because of the puzzle’s title, “Word Problems,” and because each theme clue is written as a mathematical equation, with words instead of numbers. Each solves to an ...