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Education professors have shown that a comprehension-based strategy can help English learners improve their math word-problem solving abilities. The approach boosts reading comprehension and problem ...

At Shepherd Primary, Mrs. Clarks’ kindergarten class is learning about problem solving with simple addition. For one of their problem solving activities, students used a variety of adding strategies ...