Current research indicates that mathematical skills at the kindergarten and primary levels are a strong indicator of how your child will perform later in life. By allowing children to focus on problem ...

Remember the days when working a math problem resulted in a right or wrong answer, and parents had a basic grasp of how to help their children with math homework? Those days predated the Common Core ...

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 ...

Third grade teacher Eran McGowan works through math problems with his students at the Eddie Bernice Johnson STEM Academy in Dallas on Feb. 5. (Azul Sordo For The Texas Tribune, Azul Sordo For The ...

Children improve at math when instruction engages their own bodies, concludes a new study. The results also document that children require individualized learning strategies. Children improve at math ...

DALLAS — In Eran McGowan’s math class, students try to teach each other. If a student is brave enough to share how they solved a math problem, they stand up in front of the other third graders and say ...

Fifty-eight percent of parents said their child has asked for their help with math Homeschooling is not so easy. The average American parent’s science and math knowledge taps out around the ...

Low-income children's math knowledge in preschool was related to their later achievement -- but not all types of math knowledge were related equally, a new longitudinal study conducted in Tennessee ...

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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 ...