Your eight to ten year old child will encounter some increasingly challenging concepts in math during third and fourth grade. These number concepts include: · Multiplying multi-digit numbers · Long division · Understanding and usin..
Research shows that fluency with single digit addition and subtraction is a critical component to success in math. Fluency builds confidence in mathematical abilities and helps kids catch on to new concepts easily. In fact, although math fact fluency is a..
Many parents wonder how early they should start teaching math to their children. No one asks how early they should start introducing their child to language and reading! Math is much more than just addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. It st..
It’s no secret that our nation’s youth are not keeping up in math with students from other developed nations. The problem starts in elementary school. Elementary school math lays the foundation for more advanced math topics. If kids go into secondary scho..
In pre-school Jimmy loved counting his plastic dinosaurs and cars. So his parents were perplexed when he struggled with math in elementary school. They wanted to know what happened. They later discovered that Jimmy was struggling with the abstractness of ..
Most teachers are women. Gender does not impact an individual’s ability to teach. But it does impact how much a student personally identifies with the teacher. Girls identify more with female teachers than boys do and they are more likely to emulate the t..
Check out this news release from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ National Institutes of Health (NIH) detailing an NIH-funded study about the importance of acquiring foundational math skills early to set the stage for future success. Read ..
Give a toddler the option of a plate of two cookies or a plate with one cookie and they will choose the plate with two cookies every time. The toddler is applying their mathematical understanding of comparing amounts. Fast forward to the same child as ..
