At its core, problem-solving is about understanding the challenge, designing a solution and ensuring its effective execution.

But making word problems too basic or easy, or teaching students specific “hacks” to solve a word problem, doesn’t work, either, experts say.

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“Word-problem solving in lower grades is one of the better indicators of overall school success in K-12,” said Lynn Fuchs, a research professor at Vanderbilt University.

Word problems involve reading, executive functioning, problem solving, computation and vocabulary, which means there are a lot of ways for students to go wrong when trying to solve them.

I began to wonder: Maybe the problem was not with the word problems themselves, but with the difficulty in teaching proper problem-solving techniques.

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