William G. McCallum accepted an offer about five years ago to lead a team in developing the Common Core State Standards for mathematics. The Sydney, Australia-born mathematics professor, who has ...

Let’s get started with today’s online chat, which focuses on the state of math standards around the country. With all of the talk about the need to boost students’ skills in math and science, many ...

Understanding the gap between how today's parents learned math and how their children are being taught, and how to work with ...

Reverse mathematics is a framework for analysing the minimal axioms required to prove mathematical theorems by working within subsystems of second-order arithmetic. Its central concern is to establish ...

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“The math practices (in Common Core) are asking kids to explain their mathematical thinking, to represent their ideas and to make sense of other people’s ideas,” Franke said. She hopes these ...