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 ...

Students who struggle early on with basic reading and math skills may continue to have a hard time as they progress through school. But many early grade teachers with students struggling in math ...

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 ...

Just a few months after California overhauled the way it teaches children to read, a new bill takes on math education — and may be just as controversial.

Beautiful Asian student writing on blackboard with chalk in classroom. I love math, but I know that I’m unusual. Math anxiety is a rampant problem across the country. Researchers now know that when ...

Turning math learning into a social and engaging activity helps build confidence in students and also drives academic ...

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

It's all part of a teaching method known as "counting collections" that focuses on hands-on, student-centered learning ...