The importance of increasing the mathematical and quantitative skills of young people has never been greater. What role is Core Maths playing in this and what more needs to be done to support the take ...

More than 40 states have now signed onto the Common Core standards in English language arts and math, which have been both celebrated as a tremendous advance and criticized as misguided and for ...

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208079501134099&set=a.2320230334001.2140526.1496845642&type=1 It’s hard to write about the Common Core State Standards for ...

Why is my kid’s math homework so weird? Last year, Facebook lit up with posts from dumbfounded parents trying to help their children with math worksheets. Homework questions demanded that students ...

NEW YORK – Every Saturday morning at 10 a.m., Jason Zimba begins a math tutoring session for his two young daughters with the same ritual. His youngest, Claire, 4, draws on a worksheet while his ...

In a response to my recent post concerning NCEE’s study of the expectations of the nation’s community colleges for incoming freshman, Andy Zuckerman wrote the following: I have great respect for Marc ...

Core maths could be the key to boosting post-16 students’ numeracy skills after six months away from the classroom, according to new research. The level 3 qualification was introduced in 2015-16, as ...

Only around 7% of A-level students not taking A-level maths are taking the alternative Core Maths qualification, according to analysis from the Royal Society. This leaves around 150,000 A-level ...

Less than a third of state schools and colleges were offering the chance for students to take core maths last year, an analysis by the Royal Society has found. It has also revealed today that only ...