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 ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. After marching steadily upward for the past two decades, students’ scores in 4th grade mathematics have stagnated on a prominent nationwide exam. That result seems ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Statewide performance improved by 4 percentage points in the Florida Standards Assessment for mathematics for third to eighth grades, according to data released by the Florida ...

“Because we do so much multi-step problem solving, and we’re doing two-step word problems, if they’re spending 10-15 minutes trying to figure out what 9x7 is, they’re doing a lot of extra work, or ...

When the Education Department released data earlier this week documenting what U.S. students in the fourth and eighth grades know and can do in math and reading – the most comprehensive examination of ...

The Philippines was ranked last out of 58 countries in terms of performance in fourth-grade mathematics and science by an international education cooperative in a study released Tuesday. Filipino ...

Almost four out of ten Spanish 4th-grade students are at a low or very low level in mathematics, and three out of ten in science. These performances do not compare to the European averages or those of ...