Want to help your fifth-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your fifth-grader will be learning in the classroom. Explain or illustrate how you solved this problem. Tip: Highlight ...

Brandy Frakes, an elementary school teacher at the Aspire University Charter School in Modesto, is tackling one of the greatest challenges facing educators: building support among bewildered parents ...

Students build the foundations for dividing a whole number by a unit fractions This lesson helps students build the foundations for dividing a whole number by a unit ...

, on one side were those who argued for a new focus on concepts and reasoning rather than drilling students on their times-tables. On the other were the traditionalists, who said the progressive ...

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Common Core math is getting the works from critics: It's too demanding for most kids; holds back the speedy kids; not the same as what parents already know; makes kids cry. It even promotes "fuzzy ...

Elementary and middle school math teachers have mixed feelings on the Common Core State Standards, saying both that they set unrealistic expectations and will have long-term benefits, according to the ...

What’s the difference between New Math and Common Core math? Response from Nell W. McAnelly, associate director of LSU’s Cain Center for Scientific, Technological, Engineering and Mathematical ...