Education Week – Erik W. Robelen
“Across the nation, big shifts are afoot as 45 states and thousands of school districts gear up to implement the Common Core State Standards in mathematics. The standards will change the grade levels at which some content is introduced, push aside other topics altogether to achieve greater depth, and ask students to engage in eight “mathematical practices” to show their understanding, from making sense of problems to reasoning abstractly and constructing viable arguments.”(more)