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Podcast: Knowledge for Teachers
Episode: S02E05 - Sarah Powell On Effective Word Problem Instruction
Description: In this episode of the Knowledge for Teachers Podcast, Brendan Lee speaks with Sarah Powell. Sarah is an Associate Professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Texas at Austin. She has pretty much dedicated her whole career to researching word problems in maths. She has also contributed to a couple of papers that have recently been released for the Centre for Independent Studies and we touch on those as well.Â
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However, the main focus is Word Problems and we go through everything from Attack Strategies, to the dangers of using keywords an...