Another effective strategy for helping students improve their mathematics performance is related to solving word problems. More specifically, it involves teaching students how to identify word problem types based on a given problem’s underlying structure, or schema. Before learning about this strategy, however, it is helpful to understand why many students struggle with word problems in the first place.
Difficulty with Word Problems
Most students, especially those with mathematics difficulties and disabilities, have trouble solving word problems. This is in large part because word problems require students to:
1 meter is 100 centimeters so do 200÷10 what does that leavr you with ? 20
85 + 91 + x ÷3 ≥94
You didn't give any choices but this represents the problem.
First, we'll find the slope of the new line. The first line has a slope of 
. Take the negative reciprocal of this (Flip the numerator and denominator, then multiply by 
) to get 
for the new slope.
Then, we'll use the point-slope form to make the new equation, where 
is the slope and 
is a point on the line:
