This educational activity provides word problems with manipulatives for kids to practice comparing more or less.

Pirate Math Equation Quest is an intensive word-problem intervention for elementary children. The site has downloadable books and instructional videos for teachers and students with a focus on individual and small group intervention.

We all know them, but we don’t all love them: the horrible Word Problem.

In this lesson, the students and I are working on understanding the language of word problems, using the specific words as clues to the mathematical operations embedded in the problem

This lesson makes use of “mentor problems” to help students identify and connect mathematical concepts within quantitative problem-solving situations.