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See also: teaching-mathematics, assessment-for-learning

Resources: DPS Learning

Helps teach/learn how to solve mathematical word problems by breaking the process into five steps: reading and decoding; comprehending, transforming, processing, and encoding.

With specific prompts suggested

The hurdle	The prompt
Reading and decoding	Please read the question to me
Comprehending	What is the question asking you to do?
Transforming	Tell me how you are going to find the answer
Processing	Show me what to do to get the answer
Encoding	Write down the answer