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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This study investigated incidental learning of word meanings from context during normal reading. A total of 352 students in third, fifth, and seventh grades read either expository or narrative ...

Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, Vol. 54, No. 3/4, The Mutual Exclusivity Bias in Children's Word Learning (1989), pp. i+iii+v+1-129 (132 pages) Nearly every recent account ...