The Common Core standards for math were designed to focus instruction on fewer topics each year, allowing more time to be spent on each topic to foster deeper understanding of key concepts and skills.

The new Common Core math standards have teachers finding creative examples for lessons and making sure students have strong understanding of basic concepts.

The Common Core is a set of academic standards, expectations for what students should know and be able to do at every grade level in language arts and math.

This math is frustrating to parents and to some students — with good reason. Elementary school math has become more complicated since the introduction of the Common Core state standards, which ...

Common Core also provides teachers with detailed guidance on how to teach some difficult math concepts, such as fractions, negative numbers and geometry.

Beginning in 2010, mathematics and English language arts standards, called the Common Core State Standards, were adopted in 45 of 50 U.S. states. The Common Core Standards represent a substantial ...

We talked to a New York high school math and physics teacher, Frank Noschese, to get to the bottom of these questions. For the estimation question, Noschese explained that while the answer is ...

Matt and Kate Ezyk are perplexed by Common Core math and have seen Kate's sister struggle to help her daughter with homework. As parents of a kindergartener, they worried they weren't equipped to ...

Beginning in 2010, mathematics and English language arts standards, called the Common Core State Standards, were adopted in 45 of 50 U.S. states. The Common Core Standards represent a substantial ...