Education researchers at UB and the University of California-Berkeley have received a four-year, $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) to evaluate a pre-school math curriculum ...

Children who were part of California's transitional kindergarten expansion scored ahead on reading and math in third and ...

Sign up for EdSource’s free daily newsletter to stay ahead of what’s changing in California education. Despite research showing the crucial importance of math at ...

Inhibition, mental set shifting, and memory updating are related to math skills in preschool children. These meta-analytic findings from a research project led by the Luxembourg Center for Educational ...

On a recent morning in South Seattle, Kristin Alfonzo challenged her preschoolers to make the number 7 using beads strung across two rows of pipe cleaners. One 5-year-old boy slid four beads across ...

This is the first in a two-part series. The debate over what early math should look like and what should be included in the Common Core State Standards for math is one of the most contentious in ...

A large body of research evidence suggests that strong math skills in young children are a powerful predictor of future academic success. But early-childhood educators—the professionals who are ...

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