Under Common Core, parents are likely to see some unfamiliar terms on their children’s elementary-school math homework. Here are some examples drawn from New York state’s math curriculum ...

For example, after reviewing conventional sonnet ... Back then, we just had to memorize math facts. In Common Core math, students have to do the majority of the thinking and arrive at an ...

The Common Core standards differ from that previous ... In April, comedian Stephen Colbert ripped into an example of a math problem that had lit up the Web after it was posted on Facebook by ...

Daro and McCallum are leading their own efforts. McCallum founded a nonprofit called Illustrative Mathematics that produces sample tasks linked to the Common Core, trains teachers and produces ...

I suspect that most people who excel at this type of mental math use a method similar to the number line diagram that is shown (the supposedly laughable Common Core example). The ability to ...

Just as with the English teachers, the math instructors said the Common Core doesn’t make them teach ... They found, for example, that there were slightly more peanut butter cups than the ...

McCallum founded a nonprofit called Illustrative Mathematics that produces sample tasks linked to the Common Core, trains teachers and produces curriculum blueprints. And Daro is actually writing ...

In Common Core, math students are asked to look at numbers ... (that’s 2), so the difference is 3 plus 2, or 5. Ten in this example is known as a “benchmark number,” said Huinker, and ...

The Common Core standards outline what a student ... Clearly some of the New Math ideas took root, and math education is better for it. For example, given the ubiquity of computers in modern ...

The Common Core math standards, which are in place in more than 40 states ... is waging a war against the old advice that students should cross off zeros when dividing, for example. Using this ...

Remember the days when working a math problem resulted in a right or wrong answer, and parents had a basic grasp of how to help their children with math homework? Those days predated the Common ...

Most of the questions we're using in our Common Core quiz are sample PARCC items, though we're also using a few math questions developed by the Common Core planning group as prototypes.