Helping your teenager with calculus homework has never been easy. But aiding your second grader with addition — should be a piece of cake, right? Not lately. In recent years, as the Common Core State ...

Here is today’s test in basic arithmetic: If you had two grade-schoolers and one college graduate who happens to be the kids’ grandfather, and you gave each of them a math quiz, how many would flunk?

(Editor's Note: This story has been altered. The original version of this story gave the wrong percentages for the students who passed the math portion of the WASL last spring.) Rick Burke remembers ...

Math is currently being taught in a way most people over the age of 30 may not understand. It doesn’t take anything more than a multi-step subtraction problem to result in a wide spectrum of reactions ...

Last week, I wrote a post about the questionable level of honesty in arguments for and against the Common Core State Standards. That post got a lot of good response, and seemed ripe for a follow-up.

Having trouble understanding your kid’s math problems? Maybe it’s time for a math class of your own. The way students learn math has changed through the years. Rather than learning one method of ...

Within roughly 24 hours in this past week, I ran into two cartoons that dealt with topics we have kicked around before, one of them as recently as the last column. They both dealt with common ...