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 ...

One of the few things that unites Americans across the political spectrum in this age of partisan polarization is disdain for modern math instruction. From the far left to the far right, you can find ...

When persons with advanced math degrees do not agree upon the answer in a 4th grade math book, something is wrong. ... I beg of you, please read the math books children are using. ... The extended use ...

An article by Elizabeth Green (CEO of a nonprofit education news organization called Chalkbeat) that recently appeared in the New York Times magazine, attempts to explain why most Americans are bad at ...

Why did the approach to mathematics change with Common Core, rather than providing more structure to how it was previously taught? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, ...

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. The ...

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 ...

My daughter brought home some crazy math homework this year. I thought South Carolina wasn’t using Common Core Math, but when I looked in her book, it had Common Core all over it. Will this way of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

“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 ...