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 ...
The following are three examples of calculation strategies students might discover on their own if they were taught standard algorithms first and allowed to master them before moving on. The ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...