Ah, gym class. For many kids, it injects a 45-minute burst of enjoyable exertion and playful activity into an otherwise dreary school day. But not so fast! All classes must become standardized under ...

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Math lessons are tougher than they used to be in Sioux Falls classrooms as educators prepare for new state exams. The Sioux Falls School District introduced new Common Core-based math curriculum in ...

Gojak said that 10-frames also reinforce the concept that we have a base-10 number system and the idea of place value in multi-digit numbers. Students can visualize the number 14, for example, as a ...

The city’s high-school students were stumped by the Common Core algebra exam this year. Fueled by poor algebra-test scores, only 55 percent of kids passed the math exams, down 6 points from 2014, ...

For five years, a San Francisco foundation funded, and a research organization closely monitored, a collaboration by 10 California districts to raise achievement under the Common Core math standards.

Cookies and math tend to go together in an elementary school classroom. And not always as reward for a correct answer. Teachers use them as conceptual props to explain an operation like division. It ...