First grade math success starts with strong readiness skills, early assessments, and engaging instruction. Educators and parents can work together to identify gaps early and use targeted tools to ...

To help young kids who struggle with math, well-intentioned teachers often turn to non-traditional teaching methods. They use music and movement to involve the whole body. They use hands-on materials ...

A student takes a remedial math class at Haltom High School to study for the STAAR state standardized tests in a 2012 archive photo. Ron Jenkins Star-Telegram file photo First- through third-grade ...

The mystery behind the way a child puts together his or her earliest building blocks of math is beginning to unravel. Scientists have found that what children know about numbers as they begin first ...

Just a few months after California overhauled the way it teaches children to read, a new bill takes on math education -- and ...

Hawthorn Primary School looked like an educational racetrack recently as 125 1st graders and their parents participated in the school’s first Math Marathon. Pennants and posters decorated the hallways ...

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First- through third-grade students in the Fort Worth Independent School District saw slight improvements in math testing from last school year, but they’re still trailing behind their peers across ...