After a delay of nearly a week, the Florida Department of Education has released examples that it says backs up its rejection of dozens of math textbooks because they contained questions and exercises ...

Sean Nank is a math expert who is helping teachers to implement the Common Core standards. He’s a professor at the American College of Education, created in 2005 to provide online graduate programs ...

The Common Core State Standards’ emphasis on conceptual understanding in math will improve students’ problem-solving skills and ultimately help prepare them for jobs of the future, argues a new report ...

After a long and frustrating homework session with his 2nd grade son one day last school year, Jeff Severt dashed off a letter to the teacher. “I have a bachelor of science degree in electrical ...

Last year, only 34.5 percent of city students in grades 3 to 8 passed the math exams, and 29.4 percent passed in reading and writing. Overall, officials said, the scores inched up slightly from the ...

With fewer questions and no time limits, this month’s Common Core tests in English Language Arts and math will still be a challenge for city students. It’s the fourth year of the statewide exams that ...

Allonda Hawkins said the way her children are expected to do math is “100 percent different” from the way she learned. “There are terms that I’ve never heard before, like arrays. It’s very foreign to ...

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 ...