Education experts have a solid answer. If kindergarten is about transitioning away from the play-based learning of preschool, then first grade is about stepping fully into the world of academics. “The ...

Children who failed to acquire a basic math skill in first grade scored far behind their peers by seventh grade on a test of the mathematical abilities needed to function in adult life, according to ...

Many high-achieving students experience math anxiety at a young age — a problem that can follow them throughout their lives, new research at the University of Chicago shows. In a study of first- and ...

Your child can build an understanding of addition, subtraction, and the other math concepts they are learning in first grade by playing with everyday objects. Use items that your child enjoys playing ...

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Texas Education Agency today announced the first set of instructional materials – covering K-12 Math – that will be made available to school systems through the Texas ...

OPINION: Every child deserves the chance to build confidence with numbers before they start believing they're "not a math person." That's not happening in California, Marshall Tuck writes.

For an updated version of this story, see “Review of Math Programs Comes Under Fire.” The first round of a Consumer Reports-style review for instructional materials paints a dismal picture of the ...

Here’s the equation that best sums up my personal history with math: me + numbers = anxiety. On second thought, make that anxiety squared. Our rocky relationship goes back more than four decades to ...

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You’re reading Back of the Envelope, an experiment that aims to bring shorter, quicker content to FiveThirtyEight. The study tapped into research following 7,507 children nationwide from kindergarten ...