ASTON, Pa.— In Jodie Murphy’s kindergarten class, math lessons go beyond the basics of counting and recognizing numbers. On a recent morning, the children used plastic red and yellow dots for ...

Seattle children start school less prepared in math than in reading. Brain research says we underestimate how much math kids that age can do.

5. Preschool math should be taught purposefully. Teaching math in preschool does not mean sitting kids at desks and drilling them on math facts, but singing a few counting songs about monkeys on beds ...

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A new study is focusing on what works best to prepare kids for school. Math may be what really counts, say researchers; one of them describes it as "a lever to improve outcomes for kids longer term." ...

We spoke with Bethany Rittle-Johnson, an early-math researcher, at length about what math should look like for preschool students.

If preschool gives everyone a leg up in either language or math, then a universal program wouldn't close the achievement gap between children from low-income and higher-income families, Fuller argues.

Students who started preschool with lower-than-average language and attention skills showed math gains by 3rd grade equal to a quarter to a third of a standard deviation.

Despite research showing the crucial importance of math at a preschool level for future academic success, preschool programs face significant obstacles in implementing an effective math program, ...

Of the $510,000 budgeted for curriculum updates, the preschool changes will amount to $15,000 while middle school social studies changes will total between $121,000 and $160,000.