Since Common Core doesn’t dictate a set curriculum, it frees educators, as experts, to use their own craft, ... Nicholas Fenik, 5th grade math teacher, Excel Charter School, Brooklyn.

Test your knowledge and see if you can pass a Common Core fifth-grade math test.There are 15 questions in this sample. When you're done, see how well you did! Test your knowledge and see if you ...

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An in-depth discussion of Common Core standards, how to implement them in the classroom and how to evaluate student performance. Divided up by grade level and subject. Aired: 03/06/12 ...

Grimmer Elementary 5th-graders (l-r) Nereida Hernandez, 11, Colin Pullen, 10, and Mariel Hernandez, 10, talk about Common Core math. “I wish I knew how to do geometry and distributive properties,” ...

Cross-grade-level meetings have been helpful for Chris Austin, a 4th and 5th grade math teacher at Rock Hall Elementary in Rock Hall, Md., who attends Ms. Hemstetter’s professional learning ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Jennifer Craig stared at her daughter's fifth-grade math homework. It was a three-digit multiplication problem, and it seemed simple enough. But her 10-year-old was supposed to ...

Common Core math is getting the works from critics: It's too demanding for most kids; holds back the speedy kids; not the same as what parents already know; makes kids cry. It even promotes "fuzzy ...