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 ...

A bill in the Alabama Legislature to repeal Common Core seems to have stalled in the House after passing quickly through the Senate last week. It’s doesn’t appear to be dead, but it’s not going ...

Recently, Nebraska—one of the four states that never adopted the Common Core State Standards—settled on a new set of K-12 math standards. Over the last few years, we’ve seen a few states, including ...

University of Florida provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. Math can’t catch a break. These days, people on both ends of the political spectrum are lining up to deride the ...

You might also remember the photo of a check that went viral not that long ago — a man filled out a check to his son’s school by attempting to write the check amount in ten frames. There have been ...

Brandy Frakes, an elementary school teacher at the Aspire University Charter School in Modesto, is tackling one of the greatest challenges facing educators: building support among bewildered parents ...

NEW YORK – Every Saturday morning at 10 a.m., Jason Zimba begins a math tutoring session for his two young daughters with the same ritual. His youngest, Claire, 4, draws on a worksheet while his ...

EdSource is conducting a series of interviews featuring educators’ experiences with the Common Core State Standards. For more information about the Common Core, check out our guide. Jason Zimba, 45, a ...

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 ...

What’s the difference between New Math and Common Core math? Response from Nell W. McAnelly, associate director of LSU’s Cain Center for Scientific, Technological, Engineering and Mathematical ...

I currently am on a second career after retirement—I teach math in middle school. During my last few years of work, I started taking courses in ed school at night. The first course I took was taught ...

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 ...