Word problems are logically structured speech units that contain quantitative data in various relationships and connections and the requirement to find an unknown number or quantity from known conditions and data, and they are the subject of this thesis. The paper is divided into two parts, namely the theoretical part and the research part. The theoretical part refers to giving a deeper insight into solving mathematical problems, with a special emphasis on word problems, while the practical part refers to the examination of the attitudes of primary school teachers in Zadar towards the aforementioned problems. At the very beginning of the theoretical part of the paper, the difference between traditional and modern mathematics teaching is described in detail, followed by a closer introduction to the concept of a mathematical task. Furthermore, the characteristics of different types of mathematical tasks are described. The main part of the thesis is actually word assignments in mathematics classes and their division. Also, we will encounter the problem that includes word tasks, which mostly concerns students and teachers. In the research part of the work, the main goal was to examine the attitudes of primary school teachers in Zadar towards word tasks in mathematics classes and their opinion on certain aspects of such tasks. The received answers are diverse, but teachers mostly focus on word tasks. Also, one of the major problems of today can be extracted from the answers, which is the problem of new generations, which is discussed more in the paper itself.