Common Core math puts a deep understanding of number sense (how numbers can be taken apart and put together) and place value at the core of instruction, along with visual representations and mental ...

A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. When Veera Sinha was a little girl in India, her father asked his kids to solve math puzzles in their ...

New York leaders have approved a new set of reading and math expectations for students, moving the state a step away from the Common Core State Standards, which are still in use in some 36 states. The ...

The Common Core lists skills students need to master at each grade level without specifying any particular knowledge they need to acquire. That works for math, but it could be a fatal flaw when it ...

For a while, the Common Core State Standards seemed to teeter on the brink of the abyss. State lawmakers were defecting left and right, convening committees to rewrite the standards. But a review ...

Alabama lawmakers are set to take a vote on a bill that supporters say will improve the state’s standing in math achievement in K-12 schools. The bill, called the Alabama Numeracy Act, is sponsored by ...