The common-core math standards require that students learn the standard algorithm for multi-digit adding and subtracting—you know, the process in which you line the numbers up vertically to add or ...

Under Common Core, it takes far too long for a teacher to show a student how to do simple addition, said Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. In 2013, the Texas Legislature passed a law prohibiting school ...

University of Florida provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. Math can’t catch a break. These days, people on both ends of the political spectrum are lining up to deride the ...

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The following are three examples of calculation strategies students might discover on their own if they were taught standard algorithms first and allowed to master them before moving on. Common Core ...

How would you answer this math problem: 5x3= ____? One third-grade student's answer is reigniting the debate over Common Core standards. The student was asked to use the "repeated addition strategy" ...

There's a Common Core math assignment that's confusing parents more than the kids it is testing. An image — posted in Oct. 2015 — of a worksheet asking students to "use the repeated addition method" ...

EdSource · How one student became a powerful voice for others with disabilities Nank was appointed to represent the United States as a mathematics assessment expert at the 2012 International Congress ...

Did the TV game show “Jeopardy!” take a sly jab at the Common Core State Standards this week? The first round of Friday’s show, the finale of its “Kids Week,” offered a category titled “Non-Common ...

FLORISSANT • The 40 parents sat in child-sized chairs inside the library of Barrington Elementary School and watched intently as a fourth-grade teacher wrote a problem on the smartboard. Then she ...

It's actually not as complicated as it looks.

You might also remember the photo of a check that went viral not that long ago — a man filled out a check to his son’s school by attempting to write the check amount in ten frames. There have been ...