In math, students advance to work with decimals up to the hundreds place. Students add, subtract, and multiply fractions, including fractions with different denominators. They expand their geometry ...

Test your knowledge and see if you can pass a Common Core fifth-grade math test.Tap here to find out. Test your knowledge and see if you can pass a Common Core fifth-grade math test.

Fifth-grade math teacher Wei Zhang moves her hands in small circles with her palms up, coaxing her students to think about the math problem on the board. “This way makes it easier to certain people,” ...

, 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 ...

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 ...

A set of guidelines adopted by 45 states this year may turn children into "little mathematicians" who don't know how to do actual math. A few weeks ago, I wrote an article for TheAtlantic.com ...

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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 ...

Education in America is an evolving thing: After 14 years of No Child Left Behind, President Obama replaced the much-loathed, standardized, test-heavy law with one that allows states to set their own ...

A teacher's response to a third-grader's math homework has gone viral and left parents debating the Common Core math standards across the country. In the latest national debate over Common Core math ...

Alabama lawmakers are set to take a vote on a bill that supporters say will improve the state’s standing in math achievement in K-12 schools. The bill, called the Alabama Numeracy Act, is sponsored by ...