After years of assigning the kind of homework she had done as a student and observing students’ disengagement with it, a teacher overhauled how she assigns math practice.

Aug. 20—I stared at the last question on my daughter's first-grade math homework as if doing so until my eyes grew callouses would cause an understanding of what it was asking her to do. Arlie wiggled ...

Student work posted in an elementary school before the pandemic shows the “partial product” method of solving a multiplication problem, one of many methods students have learned with Common Core.

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