Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

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.

TODAY’S WORD — MISLAYING (MISLAYING: mis-LAY-ing: Putting in an unremembered place; losing.) Average mark 34 words Time limit 60 minutes Can you find 55 or more words in MISLAYING? TODAY’S WORD — ...

It’s not all that often that word games are bobbing near the top of the Steam charts. Word Play has been hovering near the top of the Popular New Releases since it was launched earlier this month and ...