Common Core math is getting the works from critics: It's too demanding for most kids; holds back the speedy kids; not the same as what parents already know; makes kids cry. It even promotes "fuzzy ...

NEW YORK — At the kitchen table in Brooklyn, N.Y., Victoria Morey has been known to sit down with her 9-year-old son and do something she’s not supposed to. “I am a rebel,” this mother of two ...

Hot take: I love mathematics. From basic addition to multivariable calculus, learning and discovering the intricacies of how math works is absolutely fascinating. My late grandmother was a mathematics ...

As a math educator, I often find myself in conversations with parents who tell me, "I was never good at math, so it's not surprising my son isn't good either." I've also spoken with teachers who tell ...

This guest column was written by Craig McDonald, a former math teacher who is a grandparent of students in the MCCSC. I taught math for 12 years. As a student-teacher, I asked myself the question, ...

When I was in ninth grade, my English teacher assigned selections from S.I. Hayakawa’s “Language in Thought and Action.” My friends and I were initially baffled by his concepts. Still, we eventually ...

Students are welcomed back to a public school reopened after the pandemic. But students have a long way to go to recover lost time. (Los Angeles Times) There's nothing good to say about the ...

Something was missing last week from a seventh-grade math class at Palms Middle School in West Los Angeles. It wasn’t the students; they were at their desks. It wasn’t teacher Bruce Kravets; he was ...