Like many people, mathematician Brandon Smith doesn't like word problems. He really doesn't like them. The problem with word problems, he says, is that they're frequently clunky, confusing and cumbersome and that's before even getting to the mathematics. Too often, word problems conflate problem solving with reading comprehension, making it difficult to tell whether a student is struggling with the math concepts or the words themselves.
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Like many people, mathematician Brandon Smith doesn't like word problems. He really doesn't like them. The problem with word problems, he says, is that they're frequently clunky, confusing and cumbersome and that's before even getting to the mathematics. Too often, word problems conflate problem solving with reading comprehension, making it difficult to tell whether a student is struggling with the math concepts or the words themselves.