Compare and contrast these two assignments. Both target an 8th grade standard on seeing structure in an expression and being able to represent that expression in different ways. Which do you suppose ...

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 ...

The latest national test scores in reading, math and science reflect more of the same pattern in American education: Far too ...

Remember the days when working a math problem resulted in a right or wrong answer, and parents had a basic grasp of how to help their children with math homework? Those days predated the Common Core ...

The following are three examples of calculation strategies students might discover on their own if they were taught standard algorithms first and allowed to master them before moving on. Common Core ...

JUPITER, Fla. (CBS12) — Parents and students are going to get a pleasant surprise when school gets going here in less than a week. Their math textbooks, homework, and lessons are going to look a lot ...

Nick Storz is a government student at Patrick Henry College and an intern with the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. John Schoof is a research associate at the Center for ...

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 ...

“A royal mess.” This is how California middle-school math teacher Barry Garelick describes math education today, especially under the Common Core national standards. In his book, Math Education in the ...