Common Core math is on very shaky ground. First, let me say that there is nothing wrong with thinking outside the box. It has its uses when concepts of a particular subject are ingrained and ...

A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. When Veera Sinha was a little girl in India, her father asked his kids to solve math puzzles in their ...

“A royal mess.” This is how California middle-school math teacher Barry Garelick describes math education today, especially under the Common Core national standards. In his book, Math Education in the ...