The Common Core has come under fire by parents who say the new education standards make math needlessly complicated. Schools have adopted new ways of teaching subtraction and multiplication, and ...

This post first appeared in Business Insider. The Common Core has come under fire by parents who say the new education standards make math needlessly complicated. Last week, the New York Times’ Motoko ...

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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 ...

As schools around the U.S. are transitioning to the new Common Core standards, some parents of advanced students are concerned their children will be left behind. In San Diego, Calif., school ...

Three school math problems have thousands of people on Facebook and Reddit talking. The reason? Even though the students' answers appear to be totally correct, they were still marked wrong. Here's one ...

Re "The New Math: Three Concepts in Two Years; Common Core drives new look at math instruction," July 22 article: In 2008, the National Mathematics Advisory Panel recommended that schools prepare more ...