A large body of research evidence suggests that strong math skills in young children are a powerful predictor of future academic success. But early-childhood educators—the professionals who are ...

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The DREME Network was created in 2014 to advance the field of early mathematics research and improve young children’s opportunities to develop math skills. The Network focuses on math from birth ...

Immediate academic gains from early-childhood programs often fade as children move into upper elementary school. But a new study suggests math supports in the earliest grades may build on each other ...

Kayla Thuemler, a first grade teacher in Milwaukee, shows other teachers how she solved a subtraction problem during a professional development session on math teaching. Credit: Abby J. McFarland for ...

We know a lot about how babies learn to talk, and youngsters learn to read. Now scientists are unraveling the earliest building blocks of math—and what children know about numbers as they begin first ...

Other research has shown the connection between early achievement and later school success, but this study, conducted by AIR and the National Center for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education ...

Low-income children's math knowledge in preschool was related to their later achievement -- but not all types of math knowledge were related equally, a new longitudinal study conducted in Tennessee ...

Ask toddlers how old they are, and they are likely to hold up the corresponding number of fingers and say, "this many." By the time children begin walking and talking, they're accustomed to using ...

Educators and reading specialists have known for many years about dyslexia, which is why schools regularly use screening tools that can identify students with this reading disability and give them the ...