Less than a quarter of employees do any calculations more complicated than basic fractions, and blue-collar workers generally do more advanced math than their white-collar friends.

The new Common Core math standards have teachers finding creative examples for lessons and making sure students have strong understanding of basic concepts.

Remember the days when working a math problem resulted in a right or wrong answer, and parents had a basic grasp of how to help their children with math homework. Those days predated the Common ...

Some say the new Common Core math standards are too easy. Others say they're too hard or too focused on ideas rather than correct answers. Whatever they are, they're in full effect in California ...

Even critics have praised the focus, and also the way that the Common Core math standards address some of these basic areas, especially fractions.

Education Common Core math can be a mystery, and parents are going to school to understand it November 1, 2014 More than 10 years ago Summary ...

I don’t teach Common Core math, least of all at this guy’s kid’s school, but the “math” he showed on this check is not exactly what kids are learning in school.

Common Core advocates acknowledge parents are frustrated, but blame the problems on botched implementation, insufficient training or poorly written math programs that predate Common Core.