Do you remember the days when 5+5=10? For parents who grew up in the ’80s and ’90s, it was that simple. But now, as many of us help our kids with their homework using the new Common Core math ...

A bill in the Alabama Legislature to repeal Common Core seems to have stalled in the House after passing quickly through the Senate last week. It’s doesn’t appear to be dead, but it’s not ...

More than 28,000 OPS students in kindergarten through sixth grade are using a new math program, Go Math!, aligned to the controversial Common Core State Standards, even though Nebraska is one of ...

The response from the lead writers of the common standards for math was perhaps the most interesting: The problem wasn’t part of the common core, said mathematicians William G. McCallum and ...

The Basics: In math, students develop an understanding of rates and ratios, using tables, graphs and equations to solve real-world problems of proportional relationships. Students also work on solv… ...

Courtesy of Sean Nank. Sean Nank with Presidential Award. 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 ...

A common core math problem that went viral on social media. “I despise common core math,” says Katie O’Donnell, a pediatric respiratory therapist who lives in San Jose and often uses math at ...

Lesli Henderson, a fourth grade teacher from Lusher Elementary School in the Hazelwood, shows Kris Clark (left) Lisa Cierpiot and Ceirpiot's son Caleb Close, 9, how to work through a math problem ...

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 ...

The Common Core lists skills students need to master at each grade level without specifying any particular knowledge they need to acquire. That may not be a problem in math, but it could be a ...

Common Core is supposed to help prepare students for college, yet 43% of the students don’t start college. Of those that do, 24% drop out the first year, and only 29% continue on to graduation.