Cognitive overload can create a bottleneck during math lessons, but there are simple strategies to clear up students’ brain space for complex problem-solving.

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Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

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Jefferson City schools have a math problem. To be accurate, nearly every school in the Show-Me State and the nation has a math problem. Efforts to find a solution have been as elusive as a high school ...