Volume 1, Issue 26 – Acting Out Word Problems

Welcome to this week’s edition of Best Practices Weekly. Today we’ll be discussing acting out word problems.

Any teacher has experienced the frustration of students who are able to solve the math in a word problem but struggle to comprehend what the question is asking. In a study from Scientific Studies of Reading, a set of professors from The University of Wisconsin – Madison and Arizona State University discuss a promising method to help students process word problems.

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