Common Core math is getting the works from critics: It's too demanding for most kids; holds back the speedy kids; not the same as what parents already know; makes kids cry. It even promotes "fuzzy ...

Watch a Teacher Try to Explain Basic Common Core Math. By Rebecca Gruber. Updated on Sep 5, 2014 at 12:28 PM.

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.

Eureka Math, a Common Core-aligned curriculum published by the non-profit Great Minds Inc., equates mathematical concepts to stories, with the aim of developing conceptual understanding. Like Common ...

But the Common Core math standards fall far short of what students need for more advanced work. In some ways Common Core amounts to a massive experiment with our children – an experiment we ...

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 ...

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.

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The Common Core math standards were largely written by a physics professor working part time in his garage. Now they're in use by tens of millions of students nationwide.

Welcome to the world of Common Core math. Instead of memorizing facts and formulas, students today learn math by puzzling out answers and then exploring concepts that the formulas represent.

Here's the Common Core math problem has many people stumped Published: Nov. 04, 2015, 8:41 p.m. Social media has been fired up over the "Common Core" answers for this third grader's math question.

Common Core advocates acknowledge parents are frustrated, but blame the problems on botched implementation, insufficient training or poorly written math programs that predate Common Core. They say ...