This story also appeared in National Public Radio Zimba began the Saturday lessons to make up for what he felt was subpar math instruction at Abigail’s public elementary school in Manhattan after it ...

“A royal mess.” This is how California middle-school math teacher Barry Garelick describes math education today, especially under the Common Core national standards. In his book, Math ...

And, she said, it helps students do math in their heads ... The other big question: Are these really Common Core? Yes and no. The Common Core is a set of standards, a list of what skills kids ...

He feels the math instruction at Abigail's public elementary school in Manhattan is subpar — even after the school switched to the Common Core State Standards. Sponsor Message But Zimba ...

In addition, Common Core provides continuity in education for students who move from state to state. The English and math standards were voluntarily adopted by 45 states and the District of ...

That's because Common Core has taken hold much of the nation's math curriculum, and both traditional and new math have been replaced with "Base 10." The process involves students whittling down ...

Is Common Core math another bad idea, like New Math fiasco? Re: “A common frustration: Parents, forget what you know about math — Common Core is ‘absolutely insane’,” (Page A1 ...

What’s different this year is that Milford is trying to raise her students’ performance to the level of the controversial Common Core state standards, not the old Louisiana grade-level expectations.

The good old days of memorizing math formulas or multiplication tables are gone. Instead, Common Core math requires students to show how they reason their way to the right answer. As a result ...

And, as some have pointed out, the Common Core method prepares students for higher math and makes it easier for them to understand division. Launched in 2009, Common Core is currently in place in ...

For parents who grew up in the ’80s and ’90s, it was that simple. But now, as many of us help our kids with their homework using the new Common Core math standards, we find ourselves scratching our ...

What could be so horrible? Grade-school math. As schools around the U.S. implement national Common Core learning standards, parents trying to help their kids with math homework say that adding ...