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Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.

While math word problems are widely used in classrooms at all grade levels to help put numbers, operations, and equations into context and connect math to the real world, they also increase the cognitive load for students, who must parse the surrounding narrative text and distill the math. A 2025 study shows that not all the strategies students use for making sense of it are created equal.

For more coverage of the most compelling research studies for educators from 2025, visit: https://www.edutopia.org/visual-essay/the-10-most-significant-education-studies-of-2025

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