Under the Common Core State Standards in mathematics, fractions instruction extends across grades 3 through 6, with operations being taught after students have a firm understanding of where fractions ...

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

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 ...

Superintendent Frank Lacaria says that in reading and writing, 84 per cent of students were at or above the provincial ...