Students get to share their favorite family recipes and practice their problem-solving strategies in this engaging math project.

While there is a lot of talk (and proven studies!) about the negative effects of screen time on kids, we cannot deny the fact that there are also some advantages. I, for one, am not ashamed to admit, ...

Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an effective way to teach counting might be by … not counting. That’s the ...

It turns out you don’t need to be an idiot savant like Dustin Hoffman’s character in Rain Man, or an MIT mathematics prodigy in order to count cards. There’s a relatively simple approach that can give ...

The future elementary school teachers that Mark Montgomery works with at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, share a common fear: Most of them are “extremely anxious” about math.

Claire Madden, a math education specialist for Milwaukee schools, shows teachers different methods of subtracting two-digit numbers. Credit: Abby J. McFarland for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

Teacher Maro Mirzakhanyan works with students on math activities at a Pacific Clinics Head Start preschool in Glendale. Credit: Lillian Mongeau, EdSource In response to mounting evidence that ...

CoComelon is so much more than an animated sing-along show. The creators have spent almost twenty years perfecting their YouTube videos to not only engage new generations of kids, but also teach them ...

Preschool children need to be able to go beyond the number three to grasp the true concept of counting, according to researchers. "We think that seeing that there are three objects doesn't have to ...

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