What you can learn in this unit

  • How to help your students interpret word problems more effectively.
  • Some ideas to guide your students in using storytelling as a tool for understanding word problems.
  • How to help your students in representing mathematical statements by creating stories.

This unit links to the teaching requirements of the NCF (2005) and NCFTE (2009) outlined in Resource 1.

What this unit is about

1 Word problems seen as stories