Your child can build an understanding of addition, subtraction, and the other math concepts they are learning in first grade by playing with everyday objects. Use items that your child enjoys playing ...

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Incoming first-graders offered advice to students starting first grade this year. Many students said they were nervous on their first day but made friends quickly. Reading, math and making friends ...

Sian Beilock, professor in psychology at the University of Chicago and her colleagues, found most surprisingly that math anxiety harmed the highest-achieving students, who typically have the most ...

Math is getting a major makeover. By fall, traditional textbooks mostly will be tossed aside in California classrooms. What's taught in each grade will get shuffled around and, often, merged.

TEXAS — A first grade mathematics problem has sparked confusion and frustration, as some parents and online users struggled to accept its supposed solution. Ms Tiesha Sanders, a mother from Texas in ...