Bound Gaps Solved Last year, Yitang (Tom) Zhang published a paper in the Annals of Mathematics titled "Bounded Gaps Between Primes." The abstract for the

The Common Core should finally improve math education. The problem is that no one has taught the teachers how to teach it.

Parents feeling helpless when confronted with first-grade math work sheets are adding to the political debate about whether the Common Core is another way in which Washington is taking over people’s lives.

The authors argue that we have a math problem in America because when kids show up in school, the medicore math students don't see all the hard work that's already been done by parents at home with the students who are vastly better at math. It's easy for “average” students to conclude, “I'm not a math person.”