In math, students advance to work with decimals up to the hundreds place. Students add, subtract, and multiply fractions, including fractions with different denominators. They expand their geometry ...

The common-core math standards require that students learn the standard algorithm for multi-digit adding and subtracting—you know, the process in which you line the numbers up vertically to add or ...

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 ...

A state decision four years ago created a shift in the way the Erie School District teaches mathematics and English. The district wasn't sure how it was going to change its math curriculum to meet the ...

After a long and frustrating homework session with his 2nd grade son one day last school year, Jeff Severt dashed off a letter to the teacher. “I have a bachelor of science degree in electrical ...

and marked wrong by the teacher- has plenty of people talking, stirring up the debate once again on what standards are being taught as part of Common Core. The homework question was pretty simple: ...

In math, students develop an understanding of fractions as numbers. They learn the concepts behind multiplication and division and apply problem-solving skills and strategies for multiplying and ...