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 ...

It’s around fourth grade that many youngsters become discouraged by math and begin to think of it as a subject they’re just not good at. Be aware of this and try to prevent your child from developing ...

This chapter explores the tensions and compromises resulting from what seem to be different conceptions of what mathematics is and of what mathematics children should learn in school. Our work in a ...