This is a sample 6th grade performance task for the common-core math assessment being developed by Smarter Balanced testing consortium. This is a sample 6th grade performance task for the common-core ...

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 ...

The June 17 edition of the Mercury News had an article on frustration with Common Core math (“A common frustration: Parents, forget what you know about math — Common Core is ‘absolutely insane’ ” Page ...

A bill in the Alabama Legislature to repeal Common Core seems to have stalled in the House after passing quickly through the Senate last week. It’s doesn’t appear to be dead, but it’s not going ...

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 ...

*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 ...

Consider an 8- or a 9-year-old child. Their bright eyes, mischievous smiles and wild imaginations that create new worlds and take them on wonderful adventures. Those same children, when matched with ...

Although the State Board of Education adopted new Common Core standards in math and English language arts nearly seven years ago, some school districts are still in the process of implementing them.