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 ...

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 ...

Cookies and math tend to go together in an elementary school classroom. And not always as reward for a correct answer. Teachers use them as conceptual props to explain an operation like division. It ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — The South Dakota Board of Education Standards on Monday adopted new curriculum standards for mathematics and health. The decisions came after the fourth and final public hearings ...

Sean Nank is a math expert who is helping teachers to implement the Common Core standards. He’s a professor at the American College of Education, created in 2005 to provide online graduate programs ...

Based on market share and states’ recommendations, EdReports.org selected 20 math instructional series to review for common-core alignment. (For reporting purposes, K-5 and 6-8 texts from the same ...

A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. When Veera Sinha was a little girl in India, her father asked his kids to solve math puzzles in their ...

If we could snap our fingers and change the way math and science are taught in US schools, most of us would. The shortcomings of the current approach are clear. Subjects that are vibrant in the minds ...

The controversial Common Core is no more, at least where math is concerned, according to Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey. The state school board today voted 5 to 3 to approve a new math course of study for K-12 ...

For the first time in the study’s 50-year history, the National Assessment of Educational Progress’ 2020 Long-Term Trend Assessment revealed that U.S. 13-year-olds’ scores in both reading and math ...

The Common Core State Standards was one of the biggest initiatives in decades aimed at changing public education — and like many school “reforms” in the era of high-stakes standardized testing, it did ...