Remember the days when working a math problem resulted in a right or wrong answer, and parents had a basic grasp of how to help their children with math homework? Those days predated the Common ...

Such activities can help students “make sense of problems"—the first of the common core’s Standards for Mathematical Practice—and begin thinking about the ways math relates to their own ...

This brings us now to the final three pages of the 100-page document, called "Standards for Mathematical Practice." While this discussion is short, the points it includes are often the focus of ...

Particularly in the Standards for Mathematical Practice that preface and inform the grade-level objectives, the common core emphasizes the importance of explaining solutions and relationships ...

The group is moving from 20 anchor standards to 11 because they felt computer science and the eight mathematical practices found in the Common Core – the standards adopted by 41 states ...