Speak positively about math and reward effort rather than grades or ability. Think about how important reading is and how we are told to model this behavior for our children. We need to place math in ...

In this lesson, students go over basic coin recognition skills. In this lesson, students go over basic coin recognition skills, adding coins to reach a given amount, and to find the difference between ...

Write and tell time on analog and digital clocks. OBJECTIVE: I can write and tell time on analog and digital clocks. This lesson will feature the book Time Word Problems by Lisa Colozza Cocca. / Julia ...

Regularly working with manipulatives can help boost second graders’ fluency and confidence in fundamental skills.

Many high-achieving students experience math anxiety at a young age — a problem that can follow them throughout their lives, new research at the University of Chicago shows. In a study of first- and ...

The girls were deep in a chess game during their Monday math lesson at South Street School in Danbury. "It's fun," Noelia said as she prepared to take a pawn from the chess mat. "Because you get to ...

Achievement is still lower for kids who were toddlers during the pandemic—even though they didn't experience school closures.

Brittany Cohen's second graders are learning math, Mavs math. Every lesson, from using a ruler, to telling time has to do with the Dallas Mavericks. "A couple years ago, I had a student who was a big ...