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Misconception #4 Have you ever given students a worksheet, only to notice they completed all of the computation problems at the top but skipped the word problems at the bottom? https://youtu.be/cIgvboAjznQ It is a pattern many teachers have observed. Students work through the calculations with confidence, but when they reach a word problem, they hesitate, leave it blank, or move on entirely. At first glance, it can be easy to assume that the word problems are simply too diffi

A classroom of students with one student raising their hand to participate. Have you ever watched a student dive into a word problem and...

We have all heard it before: “I’m just not a math person.” Maybe you have even said it yourself. It rolls off the tongue so easily, but...

In a classic comedy sketch with Flip Wilson, a young Michael Jackson is faced with a simple math problem: dividing money among friends....