In the 2012-13 school year, Sioux Falls public schools started rolling out new K-5 math curriculum tailored to Common Core. The same year, the number of home-school students in the district doubled.

Do you remember the days when 5+5=10? 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 ...

I am also a math teacher of 7th and 8th grades, and am familiar with many of the Common Core aligned books in use. I don’t doubt Radley’s experiences with the books.

The controversial Common Core is no more, at least where math is concerned, according to Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey. The state school board today voted 5 to 3 to approve a new math course of study for ...

In effect, the Common Core State Standards initiative did provide more structure to how mathematics is being taught, and it did not, in and of itself, change the approach to teaching mathematics.

Instead, Common Core math requires students to show how they reason their way to the right answer. As a result, many parents say homework is far more complicated than it used to be.

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.

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 ...

In 2009, the NGA organized a team to write new standards for math and language arts that “ provide consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learned, so teachers and parents ...