“For some, common core is creating common confusion,” said education correspondent Rehema Ellis on a recent NBC News segment. The crux of the news piece was that parents are struggling to help their ...

The Common Core State Standards suggest several strategies for teaching early addition and subtraction, including one called “making ten.” That strategy—which I used as a teacher myself years ago, ...

NARRATION:Back in the deepest, darkest depths of time, there lived a great mathemagician called Hypatia. Numbers fell under her spell one by one. With them, Hypatia could do anything. Now Hypatia is ...