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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 ...
Here's how to support your kindergartner as they continue to learn the fundamentals of math. Get started on a kindergarten curriculum for homeschool.
Kindergarten teachers report spending much of their math instructional time teaching students basic counting skills and how to recognize geometric shapes -— skills the students have already ...
New research shows that learning more advanced content in kindergarten, such as simple addition and subtraction, not just counting, makes for bigger gains in mathematics later on.
Researchers found kindergartners who had attended transitional kindergarten are better prepared than those who had attended preschool or had not been in a formal preschool program.
By the end of kindergarten, most children have acquired beginning reading and mathematics skills and show that they have gained knowledge over the course of the year, according to the first-ever ...
Number sense development of 411 middle- and low-income kindergartners (mean age 5.8 years) was examined over 4 time points while controlling for gender, age, and reading skill. Although low-income ...
Don’t just worry about the old math — or the new math. Or whether students use calculators, or don’t have them. New data from the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI ...
Giuliana Tapia was way behind her classmates. She was just 5 years old, starting kindergarten at Telesis Academy of Science and Math in West Covina. At a kindergarten screening two months before ...
Gender gaps in math achievement and teacher expectations that boys are stronger at math than girls start to form by kindergarten, according to a study released Thursday by the American Educational ...
AbstractAnalyzing Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey—Kindergarten (ECLS-K) data, we examine how exposure to instructional practices influences math test scores at the end of kindergarten for children ...