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.

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The length of an object is the distance from one end to the other. Height measures how tall an object is. You can measure lengths or heights using centimetres and metres. The height of a plant would ...

Titch and Ted learn about geometry on their day out at the beach. Titch and Ted have had a lovely day at the beach, solving problems with 2D and 3D shapes and using the vocabulary of directions, ...

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 ...