The architects of the Common Core State Standards for mathematics explicitly aimed to sacrifice breadth for depth, but that proposition has raised questions about whether assessments can be developed ...

If you’re a teacher in a state that will take the PARCC or Smarter Balanced common-core-aligned assessments next spring, you know by now that the performance tasks for math are going to be hard—likely ...

These low-floor, high-ceiling problems support differentiation, challenging all students by encouraging flexible thinking and allowing for multiple solution paths.

Math struggles in kids may stem from brains that have a harder time learning from mistakes—not just understanding numbers.

Student data and assessment company Otus has partnered with Exemplars, a provider of standards-based performance tasks in math, science, and writing, to integrate the latter's math assessment data ...

Students at Vista View Middle School in Fountain Valley were welcomed to school recently by a cheery “Happy testing!” over the school’s PA system. They filed into computer labs to take Smarter ...

For many of us, anxiety about math performance isn’t so much a question of whether it will happen, but at what level of math it kicks in (in my case, Calculus III, sophomore year in college). But, as ...

A new Stanford study suggests math struggles may be about more than numbers. Children who had difficulty with math were less ...