Bloomburg: For too many American kids, math is not adding up | Eastern NC Now

Many parents these days have great difficulty trying to help their children with math homework.  The reason is that for almost two decades, schools have focused on the Bill Gates project of Common Core math, which is hard to understand for parents, but also often for the children themselves.  It is easy to see in everyday life when young people working as cashiers no longer seem to be able to make change.

Bloomburg has just published an editorial on the decline of math abilities among American students.  https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-11-17/math-instruction-isn-t-adding-up-to-success-in-us-schools?srnd=phx-opinion

Even California is admitting that kids are getting to college and can't do middle school math, sometimes even first grade math.

https://nypost.com/2025/11/13/opinion/college-kids-math-skills-worse-than-ever-blame-pass-the-buck-schools/

The Beaufort County School Board last year continued on the Common Core Math tangent by adopting a new math curriculum aligned to Common Core called Bridges.  One hopes that in the future, our schools will go back to traditional methods of teaching math which are proven to work instead of Common Core.