You might be confused about the Common Core, but this fourth grader isn't. Watch Savanna Burris of Meadow Homes Elementary in Concord, California breaks down the "box method" of multiplication — in ...

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Students in some local elementary schools are learning a completely different way of doing multiplication. It’s a technique that many parents can’t understand. It’s called lattice multiplication. The ...

If you compare the United States to other nations, experts will tell you that American children are not hooked on math. To cure what ails the student body, enter the Common Core standards. One aspect ...

A set of guidelines adopted by 45 states this year may turn children into "little mathematicians" who don't know how to do actual math. A few weeks ago, I wrote an article for TheAtlantic.com ...

In this method the smaller number is partitioned (broken down into tens and units). \({27}\) is broken down into \({10}\), \({10}\) and \({7}\). The method of partitioning into tens, simplifies the ...