In math, students work with whole numbers and place value. They group numbers into 10s and 1s, and learn to add and subtract up through 20. They use charts, tables and diagrams to solve problems. In ...

In early September, math teachers from across Kent County, Md., gathered for their first professional learning community meetings of the school year. Kris Hemstetter, a math and English/language arts ...

The common-core math standards require that students learn the standard algorithm for multi-digit adding and subtracting—you know, the process in which you line the numbers up vertically to add or ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio – Melissa Strouth’s students had to plan a trip. Handed a budget and a series of cost estimates, her Algebra I students at Cleveland Heights High School had to convert currency ...

Some say the new Common Core math standards are too easy. Others say they're too hard or too focused on ideas rather than correct answers. Whatever they are, they're in full effect in California ...

The United States scores below the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) average in mathematics literacy, behind 29 other nations, predominantly from Europe. Even Massachusetts ...

In the latest national debate over Common Core math standards, 5 x 3 = controversy. A third-grader's homework assignment that went viral after it was posted online by a parent has reignited questions ...