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 ...
TODAY’S WORD — MISLAYING (MISLAYING: mis-LAY-ing: Putting in an unremembered place; losing.) Average mark 34 words Time limit 60 minutes Can you find 55 or more words in MISLAYING? TODAY’S WORD — ...