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.

Sixth-grade teacher Carrie Young guides her students through an exercise on their laptops as practice for Common Core testing at Morgan Elementary School South in Stockport, Ohio. (The Associated ...

Mathematics is a unique subject in that mathematics-related motivation and learning are often accompanied by strong emotions, such as mathematics anxiety, which is estimated to affect as many as one ...

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 ...

The digital format for this year’s Badger Exam isn’t the only new testing concept that students and teachers must adjust to. Students also will have to answer a math performance task, a longer, more ...

Young children who practice visual working memory and reasoning tasks improve their math skills more than children who focus on spatial rotation exercises, according to a large study. The findings ...