Common Core isn’t evil. Your child’s math homework isn’t stupid. The only thing ridiculous is how social media keeps perpetuating misinformation to the detriment of our children.

Common Core math is getting the works from critics: It's too demanding for most kids; ... If your kids are asked to do something different, you may be up in arms. Reality of rules.

A column supporting the way math is taught under Common Core standards prompted a debate ("Common Core math is not fuzzy"). Comments from Facebook are edited for clarity and grammar: Let's ...

That's a radically different approach than many parents are accustomed to. ... Some experts say Common Core promotes reform math, a teaching method that gained currency in the 1990s.

Milgram co-authored a paper released last month that attacks Common Core math for not pushing kids enough in higher grades, ... Different experiences. Despite what experts or legislators say, ...

RELATED: Common Core math standards add up to big money for education companies So far, there has been little quality control. Some of the new curricula labeled Common Core include high quality ...

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… ...

Both the math and English Common Core standards have their share of critics but it’s math that gets special condemnation, as the new problem worksheets land on kitchen tables across the country.

With Common Core, she said, the focus is on “conceptual understanding” — why something works — before learning, say, how to apply the FOIL (first, outside, inside, last) method to ...

Unpopular with parents (just Google for memes mocking Common Core), this curriculum created in 2009 was designed to give every state a universal set of standards to measure learning and comprehension.