Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off ...

Common Core puts an emphasis on how to solve problems ... to develop good math skills through learning and growing. Many teachers teach it by telling students to add the word ‘yet’ at the ...

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 ...