In education circles, early literacy — such as ensuring all children are reading by third grade — gets a lot of attention, and rightfully so. Early reading skills have been shown to have a profound ...

It is just as natural for young children to think mathematically about their world as it is for them to use language. They develop mathematical knowledge as they manipulate objects and reason about ...

Kinga Morsanyi receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (Centre for Early Mathematics Learning; ES/W002914/1). Carlo Tomasetto does not work for, consult, own shares in or ...

The Racial Justice in Early Math project aims to educate teachers and provide resources to help educators combat racial bias in math instruction. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The ...

Words matter. And when it comes to learning math, they matter more than you might think. This is what Assistant Professor Yemimah King discovered in her research on how parents' word usage is related ...

Counting bears are frequently used in early childhood classrooms and may be especially useful for students with math disabilities as they learn that numbers correspond with a certain quantity of items ...

SAN ANTONIO – A recent study by the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study showed math scores for U.S. students between fourth and eighth grade are declining. Part of the problem is ...

What's the best way for children to learn arithmetic—memorizing number values and multiplication tables, or studying math at a deeper, conceptual level? Educators have long debated the merits of these ...

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