Fractions Solving word problems Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions. Example: The fifth-grade class is assembling a 600-piece jigsaw puzzle.

Kevin Dykema, a math expert, shares strategies for teachers to help students tackle word problems.

Key points Word problems that can be solved by the same arithmetic operation have varying difficulty. Problems that involve the inverse relation between addition and subtraction are more challenging.

From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication ...

In fourth grade, students focus most on using all four operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division - to solve multi-step word problems involving multi-digit numbers.

We may see addition or subtraction as simple, but it requires different parts of our brain to store information and understand order.

Seventy kindergarten children who had spent the year solving a variety of basic word problems were individually interviewed as they solved addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, multistep, ...