Adult learners are a challenging group to reach when teaching basic mathematical skills. This guide presents ideas and worksheets for teaching them how to solve word problems.

Download these free worksheets to sharpen your math skills. These St. Patrick's Day math worksheets focus on topics such as patterning, comparing numbers, counting, word problems, addition, multiplication, and mixed operations.

Different approaches to incorporate problem-solving skills into the elementary mathematics classroom.

This learning module includes several lessons that will help coach secondary students to have perseverance in math class. This module addresses the Problem Solving and Perseverance standard from the Common Core Standards for Mathematical...

A collection of video lessons with example problems and solutions to help students learn how to extend polynomial identities to the complex numbers. Includes interactive widget for working on the modeled problems or trying your own.

We're going shopping in this integrated lesson. Students must make a budget, create a shopping list, and act out grocery shopping utilizing their problem solving and writing skills. A comprehensive lesson with printable worksheets,...

Solve word problems that involve general triangles using trigonometry. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.

Practice plugging in values to evaluate real-world algebraic expressions. These are introductory problems, so the expressions aren't too complicated. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions...

Practice exercise provides problems that review limits including how to use the definition to compute a limit.

Provides practice problems that review limits at infinity concentrating on exponentials, logarithms and inverse tangents in this section.

Solve three challenging problems that apply properties of inscribed shapes to find an arc length or a missing angle.

Solve two challenging problems that apply the inscribed angle theorem to find an arc measure or an arc length.

On this interactive site students learn to use various units of mass to solve problems and put objects in order by their mass.

This site from Dr. Math at the Math Forum provides a collection of problems and exercises that require knowledge of the relations between similar or congruent shapes. Solutions are provided.

Here is a site that clearly and thoroughly explains rational exponents. There are example problems with solutions and problems for students to try. Answers to each student problem is hidden until one passes over it with the computer's...

Here is a site that clearly and thoroughly explains the radian measure of angles. There are example problems solved, problems for the student to attempt, and answers to the student problems.

Students learn about the law of sines. The tutorial consists of a definition, examples, and practice problems to check for comprehension.

Students will solve these word problems using knowledge of comparing equations. CCSS.Math.Content.4.OA.A.1 Interpret a multiplication equation as a comparison

Explains how to find a common denominator between two rational expressions and how to reduce a fraction that involves factoring. There are example problems solved, problems for the student to attempt, and answers to the student problems....

Practice using your graphing calculator for area and volume problems. If you get stumped or if you would like to check your work, then select the View Solution button, which is located directly under each problem.

This site offers 38 practice math problems based on the Ohio 9th Grade Math Proficiency Test. Questions are multiple choice and answer pages include discussion.

HSA-CED.A.1: Interactive resource which create equations and inequalities in one variable and use them to solve problems. Include equations arising from linear and quadratic functions, and simple rational and exponential functions....

At the end of this lesson plan about ratio/proportion, learners will be able to recognize and apply ratios and proportions to solve real-life problems and solve for any unknown component.

This Algebra lesson focuses on writing algebraic expressions to represent real-world problems, using the properties of numbers to simplify expressions, and evaluating equations by isolating the variable.