Thanks for that link Zen Scanner, I have been meaning to search for a list of all the ways you might be asked to do each kind of problem using words, that will be a helpful start along the way.

Someone on this board mentioned a while ago that their school drills the kids on "these terms mean you add, these terms mean you divide, etc". My aspie DD could really use some explicit instruction in this translation. Sentence types she's seen before she convert, but she struggles with drawing inferences at the best of time, and with sequencing, so can get terribly muddled.