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

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.

A new study has found many parents underestimate their child’s math ability, missing out on early opportunities to build skills in preschool math.

But as Bloch noted, Finland’s math performance is also near the top and its preschool enrollment is high, although its preschools focus more on play-based social and emotional development.

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, ...

A series of activities designed to teach math concepts inspired by children’s books are being piloted in Fresno as part of the California Statewide Early Math Initiative, which aims to improve how ...

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 ...

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.

Officials from Cambridge Public Schools updated the School Committee on the status of two decades-long projects — Algebra 1 in eighth grade and universal preschool — in a Tuesday meeting.

Math was always a subject that was hard for me as a child. I was always good at reading and writing, but math mystified and terrified me. My brain is probably not wired for the number kind of think… ...