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“For kids that have a fundamental weakness in mathematics, 80 percent or 90 percent of the time that’s going to be linked to a lack of understanding numbers,” said Ben Clarke, an early math researcher ...

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Other studies used number-based board games, but were allocated different types, like dominoes vs. Monopoly. [Related: How climate change board games could turn play into action.] ...

Read math-themed books (such as "You Can Count on Monsters: The First 100 Numbers and Their Characters" by Richard Evan Schwartz and "Ten Magic Butterflies" by Danica McKellar) with your child.

Yet we expect 11-year-olds just to comprehend them and move on. Acting as if math isn’t challenging is problematic. It can lead to “math anxiety” that cascades down through generations.

No matter how dire the math crisis, we can turn it around. Making math a priority in our kids’ education also will help prepare them for real life.

Finally, kids need to know how to apply what they learn in math class toward solving real-world problems, for example when averaging test scores to determine a grade, calculating a price with a 40 ...

These gaps in math proficiency lead to a mismatch between unfilled jobs and Americans searching for work – and this can have major economic, social, and emotional consequences.