Her daughter’s worksheet, which came from the New York Department of Education’s EngageNY lesson plan website and was emblazoned with “NY’s Common Core Mathematics Curriculum,” asks students to review ...

If the new national Common Core educational standards influence curriculum the way some fear they will, students can say goodbye to literary classics and hello to fuzzy math, say critics. The Common ...

All students majoring in mathematics at Saint Louis University start with a basic core of required mathematics courses: MATH 1510: Calculus I MATH 1520: Calculus II MATH 2530: Calculus III (must be ...

There’s a story making the rounds on social media—if you haven’t seen it yet, you will soon—about a funny dad in Ohio who wrote a check to his kid’s school “using Common Core math.” Have a look for ...

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I taught sixth-grade math for 24 years and found that the biggest impediment to teaching at that level was that so many ...

You might also remember the photo of a check that went viral not that long ago — a man filled out a check to his son’s school by attempting to write the check amount in ten frames. There have been ...

Nick Storz is a government student at Patrick Henry College and an intern with the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. John Schoof is a research associate at the Center for ...

EdSource · Trump's cuts to Hispanic-Serving Institutions hit community college student programs hard Districts can offer high school math the traditional American way or blend Algebra and Geometry ...

If we could snap our fingers and change the way math and science are taught in US schools, most of us would. The shortcomings of the current approach are clear. Subjects that are vibrant in the minds ...