The math standards issued by the Common Core State Standards Initiative have made life easier for innumerable teachers, and this compilation of common core multiplication strategies for 3rd and 4th ...

In math, students develop an understanding of fractions as numbers. They learn the concepts behind multiplication and division and apply problem-solving skills and strategies for multiplying and ...

An in-depth discussion of Common Core standards, how to implement them in the classroom and how to evaluate student performance. Divided up by grade level and subject. An in-depth discussion of Common ...

Editor's Note: Reporter Michelle Rotuno-Johnson is learning first-hand about how the Common Core educational standards affect math and language arts classes. Check back daily for updates from the ...

The toolkit for determining whether publishers’ instructional materials are aligned to the Common Core State Standards has grown once again. Yesterday, the Council of the Great City Schools put out a ...

Teaching elementary school math just got trickier, or at least deeper. The new Common Core State Standards require students to demonstrate a deeper understanding of math concepts, which means teachers ...

Fifth-grader Nora Meier uses a tablet computer to record information she and a partner gathered from third-graders at Lewis Elementary. This year the Southeast Portland school is issuing a Chromebook ...

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 ...

In math, students extend their understanding of place value to the hundreds place. They use this to solve word problems, such as those involving length and other units of measure. Students add and ...