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

“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 ...

Common Core, a national set of education standards, pushes students to understand math on a deeper level, digging into the reasoning behind an equation.

Schools and teachers face complex challenges and competing demands as they work toward implementing the new math standards.

Sean Nank, American College of Education professor, discusses Common Core math, instructional strategies, curriculum and the beauty of patterns.

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The common standards for math put a heavy emphasis on coherent instruction, prompting efforts to familiarize teachers with standards for grade levels beyond their own.

Certainly, math at any level can be difficult depending on the student, but Cwynar says, even for her, she thought Common Core sometimes made difficult concepts, even harder.

The Core were standards, an attempt to lay out what the end point of education should be (in math and reading only). But it didn’t say how to get there.