When Nicole Thomson first heard about the importance of teaching spatial reasoning and geometry in her kindergarten math curriculum she had already been teaching for several years. Her teacher ...

The Heising-Simons Foundation has awarded an 18-month, $500,000 research and development grant to the Mary E. Walsh Center for Thriving Children to advance early math learning for children and ...

A group of California parents and preschool teachers are overcoming their fear of math and discovering new confidence to teach it to young children through an unexpected source: storybooks. A series ...

Parents have gotten the message that reading with their children can help instill lifelong literacy skills. A new study adds to the evidence that parents can be providing the same boost to numeracy ...

Researchers in the Purdue University Department of Human Development and Family Science (HDFS) want young children to go cuckoo for mathematics. Postdoctoral researcher Salvador R. Vazquez and ...