This study investigates the relationship between skills that underpin mathematical word problems and those that underpin numerical operations, such as addition, subtraction division and multiplication ...

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The American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 107, No. 3 (Autumn, 1994), pp. 423-439 (17 pages) Students in 11th grade (N = 208) were assessed twice on the solution of algebraic word problems that ...

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 ...