Second grade is a particularly critical time in ... that child is likely to struggle academically for years to come. The Common Core standards support that effort because they include a broad ...

The Common Core standards seem to presume that even very ... introduce the standard method for addition and subtraction in second grade rather than waiting until fourth. I also hope that teachers ...

where conservatives were leery of the Obama administration’s support of the standards. It hit the mainstream in early 2014, when a dad in North Carolina posted a convoluted “Common Core” question from ...

Michigan Radio's Sarah Alvarez offers a peek at the standards at work in a second grade math class. This summer, we're telling the story of the Common Core State standards in reading and math.

Second graders will no longer learn multiplication tables; that’s now a third grade task. And geometry standards are now less about identifying and measuring shapes and more about building and ...

For example, one "viral" math problem piled on interpretations of four different Common Core second-grade math standards: number lines, place values, adding and subtracting up to 1,000 ...

In crafting a set of learning goals that nearly every state in the nation has embraced, the architects of the common-core ... standards that concentrated deeply on a few key concepts at each grade ...

The subtraction method known as “counting up” is suggested in the 2nd grade Common Core math standards: “Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of ...

2. If the states choose to adopt the Common Core, why are people getting ... topics in greater depth at each grade level. Some critics argue the new standards will put American students behind ...