While this question might seem easy to an adult, the new standards also require a different method of solving math problems - and proving you have the right answer. The Common Core was created in ...

But the way math was taught before Common Core was not always the only way. When the so-called "New Math" was introduced in the 1960s it was met with much of the same criticism Common Core is ...

Those days predated the Common Core math standards, which arrived in 2010 and put forward a central idea: Students should know why they arrived at an answer, and that is just as important as getti ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. The Common Core lists skills students need to master at each grade level ...