The math students are taught in kindergarten often progresses no further than basic counting and shapes. In a 2013 study , researcher and University of Colorado Boulder associate professor Mimi Engel ...

The math children learn in kindergarten can set the stage for later success in school. Mimi Engel, an assistant professor of public policy and education at Vanderbilt University, was on the team ...

The kindergarten class was about 80% Latino and overwhelmingly low-income, and relatively few parents had gone to college. About half the children were learning English.

Related: Kindergarten math is often too basic. Here’s why that’s a problem. Laski said early childhood classrooms could be “far more direct” with students in teaching number sense, weaving it in ...

California students who attended transitional kindergarten were more engaged in the learning process and better prepared for math and reading when they entered kindergarten than children who did not, ...

In Boston public schools, 3, 4 and 5-year-olds are getting their first introduction to math. Before they walk through the kindergarten door, the “Building Blocks” curriculum is designed to ...

Math struggles start even before kindergarten, state says . Originally published January 22, 2014 at 5:00 am Updated January 22, 2014 at 1:23 pm . Share story. By . Linda Shaw.

From 1998 to 2006, kindergarten teachers reported devoting 25 percent more time to teaching early literacy, from 5.5 hours to seven hours per week, according to the working paper by Daphna Bassok ...

A transitional kindergarten student practices a number activity using colorful interlocking cubes at Allendale Elementary School's math festival Sept. 29, 2017. A dozen parents gathered around veteran ...

Our new study finds that 13% of white students and 16% of Asian students display advanced math skills by kindergarten. The contrasting percentage for both Black and Hispanic students is 4%.

The hypothesized models suggested that the most basic literacy and mathematics competencies measured at the end of kindergarten along with approaches to learning are the most predictive of academic ...