Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Remember the days when working a math problem resulted in a right or wrong answer, and parents had a basic grasp of how to help ...

Do you remember the days when 5+5=10? For parents who grew up in the ’80s and ’90s, it was that simple. But now, as many of us help our kids with their homework using the new Common Core math ...

OHIO -- A Painesville, Ohio father showed his distaste for complicated math problem solving skills taught under Common Core standards by writing a check that no bank could possibly cash. Over at ...

Washington, D.C. — Researchers and employers alike acknowledge that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM, skills are critical for highly educated workers, as well as professions ...

FLORISSANT • The 40 parents sat in child-sized chairs inside the library of Barrington Elementary School and watched intently as a fourth-grade teacher wrote a problem on the smartboard. Then she ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Back-to-school time is officially upon us, and by now everyone has seen a Common Core math problem that takes something simple ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — New teachers, new schedules, new curriculum. As students get back in the classroom, they may find some of the learning materials have changed. After more than a decade, Common ...

My daughter brought home some crazy math homework this year. I thought South Carolina wasn’t using Common Core Math, but when I looked in her book, it had Common Core all over it. Will this way of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifteen years after the calamitous rollout of the Common Core math standards, the once-derided strategy has proven its staying ...

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 ...

A high-profile effort to establish common academic standards across states is far from complete, but an early blueprint has won a favorable review from a Washington think tank that has long supported ...