While "Common Core math" has become synonymous with skip counting and other seemingly convoluted methods for solving problems, it mainly is just a departure from how most of us learned math.

The Common Core, a set of math and English language arts standards that spells out what skills students are expected to master in kindergarten through 12th grade, will be rolled out in every ...

Teachers are reaching out to build support among bewildered parents for the Common Core standards being implemented in thousands of California classrooms.

Fifteen years after the calamitous rollout of the Common Core math standards, the once-derided strategy has proven its ...

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 ...

In response to parents' frustrations with the new standards, educators asked, What does a good Common Core math problem look like?

I don’t teach Common Core math, least of all at this guy’s kid’s school, but the “math” he showed on this check is not exactly what kids are learning in school.

Students will still spend time memorizing math formulas, but thanks to Common Core they will also be required to model the concepts they're learning.

Patterns were mostly left out of the common-core math standards in the early grades (kindergarten and 1st grade) due to a lack of evidence that they helped children understand later math concepts.

The Basics: In high school, students use a deeper understanding of mathematics to solve real-world problems. While in elementary and middle school, the math skills children need to know are organiz… ...

Like the Common Core, it will focus more on evidence-based arguments, and it will ask students to deal with fewer math questions but in more depth. The ACT is already aligned to the Common Core.

What do you think is the most significant change in the Common Core mathematics standards? This is the first time we’ve had a set of standards in math that focuses our efforts strongly on the math ...