Common Core math is getting the works from critics: It's too demanding for most kids; holds back the speedy kids; not the same as what parents already know; makes kids cry.

Is Common Core math another bad idea, like New Math fiasco? Re: “A common frustration: Parents, forget what you know about math — Common Core is ‘absolutely insane’,” (Page A1, June 17 ...

Maybe Common Core is a blessing in disguise, creating a groundswell of opposition to the nonsense of progressivist math. He lays out the traditionalist approach that future standards should embody.

Under Common Core math standards, ... 30 percent literature, but the percentages apply across all subject areas, including social studies and science, for example. Under the Common Core, ...

For example, the right answer to 3×5 isn’t just 15 anymore, as one popular social media post noted. It’s 3+3+3+3+3. ... A common core math problem that went viral on social media.

Here’s a hilarious example from a parent lampooning the Common Core (I found this in a Google image search, but I believe I remember seeing this one make the rounds through email or Facebook): ...

What’s the difference between New Math and Common Core math? Response from Nell W. McAnelly, associate director of LSU’s Cain Center for Scientific, Technological, Engineering and Mathematical ...

Florida adopted Common Core in the 2000s under Republican Gov. Jeb Bush, who was a strong proponent. But it dropped Common Core in 2020 under DeSantis, who said it was being replaced by "Common ...

Most of the questions we're using in our Common Core quiz are sample PARCC items, though we're also using a few math questions developed by the Common Core planning group as prototypes.

As one the authors of the Common Core math standards, Phil Daro showed a problem he liked. He said, have students solve 15 divided by three in six ways: ... The standards, for example, still require ...

Adopted by 44 states, including Maryland and D.C., the Common Core is a set of English and math standards that spell out what students should know and when.The standards for elementary math ...