Sean Nank is a math expert who is helping teachers to implement the Common Core standards. He’s a professor at the American College of Education, created in 2005 to provide online graduate programs ...

In math, students develop an understanding of rates and ratios, using tables, graphs and equations to solve real-world problems of proportional relationships. Students also work on solving multi-step ...

Brandy Frakes, an elementary school teacher at the Aspire University Charter School in Modesto, is tackling one of the greatest challenges facing educators: building support among bewildered parents ...

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It also allows us to take a blended learning approach to our Common Core math instruction. Blended learning at the elementary level is different than the traditional definition. In the elementary ...

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 ...

Mathematics is a language. It is universal, structured and exact,” Vestal said. “Like any language, it has vocabulary, ...

The most recent round of textbook reviews from EdReports.org show that Everyday Math, which is used in about 200,000 classrooms around the country, does not meet the expectations of the Common Core ...