Student work posted in an elementary school before the pandemic shows the “partial product” method of solving a multiplication problem, one of many methods students have learned with Common Core.

While sitting down at my computer to commence a brain dump on all the things I want to say about this topic, I’m simultaneously fussing at my middle schooler to start his homework on the last of our ...

I've become very good at faking the Big O – as in "Oh, you have math homework? How fun!!" I mistakenly thought that once I left school I would never had to do another word problem again. Then I became ...