Abstract

Mathematical word problems often pose a challenge to most students. This phenomenon is because solving a word problem requires skills in reading and comprehending the text of the problem, identifying the question that needs to be answered, sorting the important information from the distracting information, selecting the mathematical operations to be used and finally creating and solving a numerical equation. Therefore, we proposed MATHMASTER, the system that was designed to help a student practice to understand mathematical word problems and translate the problem into appropriate equation(s). MATHMASTER guides students through step-by-step instructions at their own pace and at a level adapted to help each student toward the solution.