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 ...

The mystery behind the way a child puts together his or her earliest building blocks of math is beginning to unravel. Scientists have found that what children know about numbers as they begin first ...

An in-depth discussion of Common Core standards, how to implement them in the classroom and how to evaluate student performance. Divided up by grade level and subject.

This image provided by the University of Missouri shows an illustration part of a University of Missouri study that examined first-graders’ "number system knowledge." That’s how well they understand ...

While criticizing the “science of math” movement for generalizing findings from narrow intervention studies into broad ...

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 ...

OPINION: Every child deserves the chance to build confidence with numbers before they start believing they're "not a math ...