There is an old saying, “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.” This statement has powerful implications when it comes to teaching the Common Core State Standards in math. Using 5th ...

An article by Elizabeth Green (CEO of a nonprofit education news organization called Chalkbeat) that recently appeared in the New York Times magazine, attempts to explain why most Americans are bad at ...

As part of a continuing discussion on the myths and truths surrounding Common Core, this piece studies the standards’ math guidelines, and addresses pertinent questions and concerns regarding the ...

You might also remember the photo of a check that went viral not that long ago — a man filled out a check to his son’s school by attempting to write the check amount in ten frames. There have been ...

Allonda Hawkins said the way her children are expected to do math is “100 percent different” from the way she learned. “There are terms that I’ve never heard before, like arrays. It’s very foreign to ...