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. Fourth-grade ...

Are math problems bugging your kids? Tell them to talk back -- using their hands. Psychologists report that gesturing can help kids add new and correct problem-solving strategies to their mathematical ...

I heard this almost every day as a student when my teachers assigned math problems--odds in class, evens for homework--at the end of each section in the book. And many teachers still do this today.

Every now and again, homework takes social media by storm. Sometimes it’s a young child’s vexing assignment, or a classic brain teaser. But the problem above that’s stirred such debate is really just ...