Helping Children Understand Verbal Problems

Abstract

It doesn't take any research study or report to tell either teachers or parents that many children have a great deal of difficulty with verbal problems—also referred to as work problems, sentence problems, or story problems. This, of course, is no new or startling situation. Most of us can recall going through the same struggle with these problems a children do today. In fact, many of us still wouldn't do too well with some of the verbal problems in a sixth or seventh grade arithmetic book.