You can find the difference between two numbers in more than one way. You can count up from the smaller number to the larger number. Or, you can count back from the larger number to the smaller number ...

Subtracting larger numbers in your head is not always easy, so you can use the column method to take one number away from another. You write the larger number above the smaller number, so that the ...

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 ...

Cath Pearn is affiliated with both the Australian Council for Educational Research and the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne. I’m sure most people can remember trying ...

Your child continues to use tape diagrams as a visual tool to solve word problems. Your child continues to use tape diagrams as a visual tool to solve word problems. Now, he solves for an unknown in ...

Time to test your brain! Are you a puzzle person? Most of these hard math problems aren’t straightforward arithmetic. They challenge you to look at problems a different way, testing your logic and ...