So, can you solve the sixth-grade math problem? The correct answer to the equation is 11. To get the answer, four is first divided by itself because division comes before subtraction in PEMDAS.

Kevin Dykema, a math expert, shares strategies for teachers to help students tackle word problems.

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Word problems involve reading, executive functioning, problem solving, computation and vocabulary, which means there are a lot of ways for students to go wrong when trying to solve them.

For the study, researchers worked with 207 third grade students with and without math difficulties to see how working memory influenced their abilities to solve word problems.

The acronym represents the correct order to complete a math problem with multiple functions, starting by solving what's in between parentheses. So, can you solve the sixth-grade math problem?