Here's the thing: The Common Core standards don't specify the use of curricula, textbooks, workbooks or lesson plans — let alone particular math problems. (See #6, below). But in order to teach to the ...

So, what is this initiative, called Common Core, all about? The Common Core State Standards is a states-led effort to set grade-level benchmarks, or standards, in math and reading that will be ...

Next month, a panel of University of California professors in the sciences and math will give their recommendations on the contentious issue of how much math high school students should know before ...