How Solve Word Problems in Arithmetic Author:Phyllis Pullman Nothing strikes fear into the hearts of math students more than word problems. In How to Solve Word Problems in Arithmetic, noted math teacher Phyllis Pullman defangs the dreaded word problem for 5th through 8th grade-level arithmetic students by emphasizing the mechanics and grammar of problem-solving, and focusing on problems involving arithme... more »tic skills, area, percent, basic geometry, measurement, and statistics.« less