Sentence examples for word problem from inspiring English sources
noun
A mathematics question that states verbally what is usually written using symbols (or, for geometry, in a picture).
HERE's a word problem for you.
"All right, how about a word problem?
Quietly segueing into a math lesson, he wrote a multiplication word problem on a whiteboard.
The answer is more complicated than the toughest word problem in any high school math class.
In the same spirit, here is a Bongard-type word problem.
The last group might be asked to analyze a word problem and apply the calculation.
By comparison, cheating on a word problem, with no apparent victim, produces a relatively cheap thrill.
When television is such a mathematical word problem, it hurts the idle brain.
"When I see a word problem, I don't know which rule to use," Mr. Williams said.
Say immigrant and the word "problem" -- not "potential" -- tends to flash into people's minds.
In the lesson I watched, Wilma is using a word problem to teach her class a concept called "unit rate".
