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 ...

WESTON — The "Survivor Math Challenge" on Sept. 26 was an outdoor event in which teams of students competed with one another to solve order-of-operations math problems before completing a variety of ...

Everyone agreed on the first step: Solve inside the parentheses, for 2+2=4. But after that, people split down two paths. Some multiplied first, while others divided, leading to different answers—1 and ...