Through parent math nights, letters home, and videos, schools are providing a quieter counterpoint to media critiques of the math standards.

The Common Core method has many parents concerned. Complaints range from "it's too focused on understanding the steps instead of getting the right answer" to "it's too complicated, I can't even ...

The parents in the room were drawn there by the shift to Common Core, the national English and math benchmarks that have left many parents feeling flustered by elementary school worksheets.

The class teaches parents how to use common-core "thinking math" to help their children with homework that's likely different from the math they learned in school.

I’ll admit, the first time I saw my son’s elementary-school math asking him to use the array method or to write a number sentence or to use the counting-up method of subtraction, I was baffled.

Earlier this month some Duval parents complained to the School Board they are stumped by elementary math and they blame the Common Core standards and Duval's new math curriculum.

The Common Core has come under fire by parents who say the new education standards make math needlessly complicated.

While "Common Core math" has become synonymous with skip counting and other seemingly convoluted methods for solving problems, it mainly is just a departure from how most of us learned math.

Common Core Math Common Core math moves into educational lanes of literacy and visual cues, allowing students to read the problems and then make sense of them.

Common Core, a national set of education standards, pushes students to understand math on a deeper level, digging into the reasoning behind an equation. Proponents say it will increase the rigor ...