Research now shows that kids who don't have a fun but strategic experience with math in preschool, before kindergarten, are far less likely to succeed academically, let alone enter STEM fields.

Kindergarten teachers report spending much of their math instructional time teaching students basic counting skills and how to recognize geometric shapes -— skills the students have already ...

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 ...

There's a similar pattern for the test of early math skills and its correlation to the third grade math exam. Students who enter kindergarten at the state average, scoring an 8.5 on the early math ...

In kindergarten, between 13 percent to 16 percent of white children scored above the 90th percentile on math and science tests, compared with 3 percent to 4 percent of Black or Hispanic children.

Technology use in early learning offers promising opportunities—and lots of unanswered questions. Preschool classrooms are usually crowded and chaotic. There is often one lead teacher for fifteen or ...