This is a sample 6th grade performance task for the common-core math assessment being developed by Smarter Balanced testing consortium. This is a sample 6th grade performance task for the common-core ...

After a long and frustrating homework session with his 2nd grade son one day last school year, Jeff Severt dashed off a letter to the teacher. “I have a bachelor of science degree in electrical ...

After a delay of nearly a week, the Florida Department of Education has released examples that it says backs up its rejection of dozens of math textbooks because they contained questions and exercises ...

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 ...

EdSource · School screen time is rising. California parents are asking where to draw the line Fifth-grade math teacher Wei Zhang moves her hands in small circles with her palms up, coaxing her ...

Sean Nank is a math expert who is helping teachers to implement the Common Core standards. He’s a professor at the American College of Education, created in 2005 to provide online graduate programs ...