Under Common Core, parents are likely to see some unfamiliar terms on their children’s elementary-school math homework. Here are some examples ... x 24 –Grade 4 word problem: Cindy says ...

Three school math problems have thousands of people ... found the estimation problem ridiculous and a prime example of why the Common Core is ineffective. "If all the parents make sure their ...

A bill in the Alabama Legislature to repeal Common Core seems to have ... She uses two examples to explain how students are taught to visualize math, which helps those students who don’t ...

For example, there's nothing wrong with ... without the ability to solve actual math problems. After all, where the Common Core goes, textbook publishers are probably not too far behind.

So why is the problem so difficult? The Hechinger Report asked a couple of the lead writers of the Common Core math standards, Jason Zimba and William McCallum. Their response? Don’t blame Common Core ...

Virtually every example of one of these attacks on the Common Core fall into one of two categories ... who lost to a fellow Republican), about a math problem that has gone viral, helping to ...

For example, the right answer to 3×5 isn ... The new methods leave many parents baffled. A common core math problem that went viral on social media. “I despise common core math,” says ...

Common Core ... math these days. Not like the simple way we were taught back in the day, when we walked three miles uphill both to and from school. I’m not going to belabor all those examples ...

The Common Core standards differ from that previous ... In April, comedian Stephen Colbert ripped into an example of a math problem that had lit up the Web after it was posted on Facebook by ...

The Common Core math standards, which are in place in more ... advice that students should cross off zeros when dividing, for example. Using this technique students can quickly solve a problem like ...