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 ...

For all the griping about the CCSS, and in particular the math standards that people love to hate with these images of unfamiliar methods and models or of work that is inexplicably marked down, ...

For example, one Common Core math standard says fifth-graders should be able to use place value understanding to round decimals to any place. Curriculum is what teachers do every day in the ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Jennifer Craig stared at her daughter's fifth-grade math homework. It was a three-digit multiplication problem, and it seemed simple enough. But her 10-year-old was supposed to ...

Common Core math has sparked a great deal of contention across the country in the past few years. It has its supporters, those who say that it teaches students to better understand mathematical ...

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.

When Zimba was first hired to help write a new set of K-12 math standards in 2009, the groups behind the Common Core — including representatives from 48 states — set very ambitious goals.

5 Online Resources to Help Teach Kindergarteners CCSS-Aligned Math. By Eva Harvell; 05/21/15; The Counting and Cardinality domain in the Common Core State Standards is only found at the kindergarten ...

In the video below, Phil Daro discusses a central change he and his fellow Common Core Math co-authors sought to bring about as they developed the standards: a de-emphasis on answer-getting. Daro ...

How Common Core math is different. Arithmetic has usually been taught like it’s a recipe: Take the raw ingredients (the numbers), follow a series of steps, and end up with a result (the answer).

The common core math standards prescribe the content of Algebra I and Algebra II for all students, while Marc concludes from this recent study about college readiness that what is normally taught ...