Why Math Word Problems Fail — And How We Can Get Them Right

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why Math Word Problems Fail — And How We Can Get Them Right
AK Whitney, Noodle, 2016/02/29
In school I struggled with math. My problems in math centered around applying memorized formulae to specific problems. Word problems weren't a special case for me, but even as I solved the problems here my main difficulty lay in retrieving from memory the right formula for this and that. More...