"It says 'received,' so it must be addition." What I changed after realizing I was teaching students to use keywords for equations, even though they could calculate …

I was grading math tests in the classroom after school in December.It was the end of the second term of second grade, a unit ...
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Why schools are teaching math word problems all wrong

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 ...