The following are three examples of calculation strategies students might discover on their own if they were taught standard algorithms first and allowed to master them before moving on. The ...

Schools around the country are holding math nights, sending letters home, and posting videos on their websites to teach parents about the Common Core State Standards for mathematics, which require ...

The Common Core method has many parents concerned. Complaints range from "it's too focused on understanding the steps instead of getting the right answer" to "it's too complicated, I can't even help ...

Common Core math standards get slammed a lot. I see posts on Facebook all the time from people bemoaning these baffling ways children are being taught math these days. Not like the simple way we were ...

Common-core math aims to have students do less memorizing—but it’s being misinterpreted to have students do more, argues Kathy Liu Sun, an assistant professor of math education at Santa Clara ...

Kathy Liu Sun is an assistant professor of math education at Santa Clara University who was a public high school math teacher for nine years in San Jose, California. She argues in the following post ...