Courtesy of Sean Nank. Sean Nank with Presidential Award. Sean Nank is a math expert who is helping teachers to implement the Common Core standards. He’s a professor at the American College of ...

Maybe Common Core is a blessing in disguise, creating a groundswell of opposition to the nonsense of progressivist math. He lays out the traditionalist approach that future standards should embody.

We've all seen the jokes about Common Core fails and heard parents lament about not being able to help their children with homework under the complex new math standards, but few people seem to ...

Unpopular with parents (just Google for memes mocking Common Core), this curriculum created in 2009 was designed to give every state a universal set of standards to measure learning and comprehension.

A version of this article appeared in the November 12, 2014 edition of Education Week as Common Core Redoes the Math. From the Special Report. Mathematics. Making Sense of the Math.

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, June 17 ...

» Ralston uses Math Expressions in elementary grades and Holt Math for sixth through 12th grades, both of which are aligned to the Common Core. » Lincoln does not use Common Core math.

Disdain for "Common Core" math instruction and the requirement that students explain their answers crosses all manner of partisan boundaries. Unfortunately, it's dead wrong: explaining answers is ...

The Core's 'fuzzy math' Under the Common Core, the emphasis in math classes is not just on getting the right answer, but on understanding the reasoning behind it.

Hazelwood held a class at Barrington Elementary School to help moms and dads understand Common Core math, so they can help with their kids' homework. Photo By David Carson, ...