passing the common core

Use these tips to help your kid ace the Common Co🍌re tests

Students can prepare for New York’s annual math and English tests by practicing the following essential skills and strౠategieﷺs. These tips, endorsed by local tutors, are important for kids in...

Pass♏ing the Common Core: High School Math ಞ

The♏ Basics: In high school, students use a deeper understanding of mathematics to solve real-world problems. While in elementary and middle school, the math skills children need to know are...

Passing the Common Core: High School English 𝔉

The Basics: In high school English Language Arts, students read works of literature and informational texts with a critical eye. They analyze classic and contemporary works from various e🍬ras, cultures...

Passi🍃ng the Common Core: 8th grade 

The Basics: In math, students tackle the Pythagorean t𓂃heorem, bringing their math to a higher level of algebꦇraic reasoning and knowledge of the properties of operations. With their understanding of...

🌳 Passing the Common Core: 7th grade

The 🅰Basics: In math, students develop an understanding of rates and ratios, using tables, graphs aﷺnd equations to solve real-world problems of proportional relationships. Students also work on solving multi-step...

Passing the Common Core: 6th grade ဣ

The basics: In math, students learn the concept of rates and ratios and use these tools to solve word problems. S🍌tudents work on dividing multi-digit w𝄹hole numbers and adding, subtracting,...

Passing the 🧸Common Core: 5th grade

The Basics: In math, students advance to work with decimals up to the hundreds place. Student💯s add, subtract, and multiply fractions, including fractions with different denominators. They expand ไtheir geometry...

 💛Passing the Common Core: 4th grade

 Thဣe Basics: In math, children use addition, subtraction, mul🐼tiplication and division to solve word problems. They tackle measurement of volume, mass and time. They learn more about fractions — creating...

♕  Passing the Common Core: 3rd grade

The Basics: In math, students develop an understanding of fractions as numbers. They learn the concepts behind multiplication and division and apply problem-solvi🍌ng s🎃kills and strategies for multiplying and dividing...

 Passing theℱ Common ꦍCore: 2nd grade

 The Basics: In math, students extend their underst𒊎anding of place value to the hundreds place. They use this to solve word problems, such as those involving length and other units...

 Passing the Co꧟mm༺on Core: 1st grade

The Basics: In math, students work with whole numbers and place value. Th💮eyജ group numbers into 10s and 1s, and learn to add and subtract up through 20. They use...

💞 Passing the Common Core: Kindergarten

The Basics: In math, kindergartners focus on learning numbers and what numbers represent, then learn about add꧃ition and subtraction. Students also identify and work with shapes. In English, students learn...

What's new for the Common Core in 2016

With fewer questions 💛and no time limits, this month’s Common Core tests in English Language Arts and math will still be a challenge for city students. It’s the fourth year...