A student teacher at P.S. 59 was horrified when she was told to photocopy and distribute a fourth grade homework assignment with "Slavery Word Problems" where the questions were "On a slave ship, ...

Today in advice we didn’t think would ever require repeating: Teachers, it is never a good idea to use dead slaves as units of measurement in your math problems. On Thursday, NY1 revealed the story of ...

Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.

The Journal of the Learning Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 2 (1997), pp. 183-226 (44 pages) A form of socially assisted group learning based on a modified version of reciprocal teaching for mathematics ...