Heartland

Common Core Math Standards Encourage Dubious ‘Inquiry-Based’ Approaches

Purveyors of the inquiry-based and student-centered math agenda, which has persisted for more than 20 years, argue traditionally taught math has never worked for the vast majority of the nation’s ...
Heartland

Common Core Math Standards Intensify the Existing Reform Math Agenda

The Common Core math standards have poured gasoline on the math “reform” fire that has raged for the past 20-plus years. This is particularly true since the national dialogue about Common Core has ...
PopSugar

Wait Until You See Why This Student's Common Core Math Work Was Marked Wrong

There's a Common Core math assignment that's confusing parents more than the kids it is testing. An image — posted in Oct. 2015 — of a worksheet asking students to "use the repeated addition method" ...
NBC Washington

Viral Math Problem Reignites Common Core Debate

How would you answer this math problem: 5x3= ____? One third-grade student's answer is reigniting the debate over Common Core standards. The student was asked to use the "repeated addition strategy" ...
Education Week

Another Parent’s ‘Common-Core Math’ Slam Goes Viral

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208079501134099&set=a.2320230334001.2140526.1496845642&type=1 It’s hard to write about the Common Core State Standards for ...
Government Technology

Common Core Math Rollout Bumpy at Best

(TNS) -- Frustrated parents headed to Sisk Elementary School seeking the insider code that would help them decipher Common Core mathematics. “I’m so stressed by this math!” said grandmother Diana ...
The Journal

Using Visual Storytelling to Teach Common Core ELA and Math

Stacie Isenberg is the technology integration coach at Blairsville-Saltsburg School District (PA), which is located in a rural area about 40 miles east of Pittsburgh. The district serves approximately ...