When I first started teaching, I used to display lists of keywords that students could use to solve word problems. I thought this was the best idea ever. Give students something to look for when reading word problems to know when to add, subtract, multiply or divide. Genius. Or so I thought. Different Types of Word Problems Five years later, I learned about problems types and got deep into the …

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