Teach your children 4th grade math skills like fractions, multiplication and division. In fourth grade, students learn to solve multi-step word problems and deepen their understanding of fractions.

“When students struggle [with word problems], it tends to be everything else they have to do to get to the calculation,” said Brian Bushart, a 4th grade teacher in the West Irondequoit schools ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off ...