Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

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 ...

Across the country, parents are discovering that what their children bring home from school looks very little like what they once learned. It isn’t just math — reading lessons, writing expectations, ...

Click the Insert tab In the Symbol group, click the Equation button and select insert new equation from the drop-down menu. Word will show the equation tab, which contains all the equation tools. Yes, ...

The redesigned SAT contains longer and harder reading passages and more words in math problems, experts say. How well would you do? Try these questions, taken from a practice test. Full-length ...

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David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize winning drama, “Proof,” which premiered in 2000, and was later adapted into a film, is about a mystery but without a murder victim. The title is a play on words: in ...