“For some, common core is creating common confusion,” said education correspondent Rehema Ellis on a recent NBC News segment. The crux of the news piece was that parents are struggling to help their ...

Ways to break apart numbers to solve addition & subtraction equations in a fact family. In this lesson, Julia reviews the ways to make 10 and how we can use these ways to break apart numbers to solve ...

The Common Core State Standards suggest several strategies for teaching early addition and subtraction, including one called “making ten.” That strategy—which I used as a teacher myself years ago, ...