Corrected: An earlier version of this story misspelled the name of Julie Sarama, a researcher who has developed strategies for building the mathematical skills of preschool students. A pair of New ...

ATLANTA — Students gathered around a bright blue number board in Melissa Williams’ kindergarten class at the Westminster School, gazing at the bank of 100 blank squares, organized in rows and columns ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - America’s children are not scoring well in math, and researchers have been working to uncover how kids best learn the subject — and how that can be put into practice in the classroom ...

Number sense is so ingrained that many adults don’t remember being taught such early math skills, much like learning how to read. But unlike the recent wave of evidence on science-based reading ...

The building blocks of mathematical understanding start to form very early in life, as do the fundamentals of reading, but experts say that informal “math through play” approaches alone don’t add up ...

Associate Professor Elida Laski's research, highlighted in "The Hechinger Report," examines the impact of income on children's number sense and problem-solving skills. The study shows that ...

I’m responding to Esther Cepeda’s opinion column “Don’t jinx students by bad-mouthing math class” (April 28, The Columbian). I love math when I can solve a problem by using the right tools from a ...

Concepts: Counting to 100, add/subtract up to 10 using objects and drawings, and up to 5 by recall; seeing adding as putting things together (composing) and subtracting as taking them apart ...