Students have complained that their teacher is making up the rules for solving equations just to annoy them. "Where is it in my text?" Often the rules were given years ago, and the student is assumed to have internalized them. Here are the rules as they appear in Grade 5. The answers are fully laid out to show the student HOW to answer. The lessons on how to read word problems is designed for the student in Grade 5 who is just learning to write compound sentences.