Q: Last year, my daughter struggled with math story problems. It’s the same this year in eighth grade. She has no trouble reading the words but still can’t understand how to get the answer. Is there ...

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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