This is a sample 6th grade performance task for the common-core math assessment being developed by Smarter Balanced testing consortium. This is a sample 6th grade performance task for the common-core ...

Common Core math puts a deep understanding of number sense (how numbers can be taken apart and put together) and place value at the core of instruction, along with visual representations and mental ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifteen years after the calamitous rollout of the Common Core math standards, the once-derided strategy has proven its staying ...

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 ...

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 ...

EdSource · When teens counsel teens: Why peer support programs are growing Fifth-grade math teacher Wei Zhang moves her hands in small circles with her palms up, coaxing her students to think about ...

Long a staple of the high school curriculum, the mathematics-course sequence of Algebra 1, geometry, and Algebra 2 is facing a budding challenge as schools transition to the Common Core State ...