A version of this article appeared in the September 28, 2011 edition of Education Week as The Common-Core Math Standards: They Don’t Add Up. Common-Core Commentaries. Open image caption.

Teaching elementary school math just got trickier, or at least deeper. The new Common Core State Standards require students to demonstrate a deeper understanding of math concepts, which means teachers ...

While a smoking-gun study directly linking Common Core Standards to math score declines has yet to be conducted, the available evidence strongly suggests those standards no longer deserve parents ...

So the Common Core math standards tackle fewer topics, and also move students more slowly through arithmetic, subtraction, multiplication and the other operations that build up to more complex ...

Common Core math standards add up to big money for education companies by Sarah Carr September 15, 2014 October 21, 2020. ... The vendor sold laminated placards with Common Core standards written on ...

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 ...

Math problem "Double Down Again," a third-grade math activity aligned with the Common Core standards: Johnny and Hua were walking to school one day when they saw two teachers each walking with two ...

Concerned Parent 10 years ago 10 years ago. I believe that in California in year 2014-2015 there has been a decline in math as being taught to all children. I believe the schools have decided to let ...

The Common Core math standards have poured gasoline on the math “reform” fire that has raged for the past 20-plus years. This is particularly true since the national dialogue about Common Core has ...

When Zimba was first hired to help write a new set of K-12 math standards in 2009, the groups behind the Common Core — including representatives from 48 states — set very ambitious goals.

For three days this week, math teachers from three Connecticut school districts have worked with UConn faculty members and graduate students to develop skills and resources to enable them to meet ...

One way of assessing Common Core Math Standards is a math task. A math task is an individual or group activity that results in products, which can be used to assess mathematical understanding.