We are robbing young children of play time at home and school in an effort to give them a
head start on academic skills like reading and mathematics. Yet the scientific evidence …

As a group, children from disadvantaged, low‐income families perform substantially worse
in mathematics than their counterparts from higher‐income families. Minority children are …

The third edition of this significant and groundbreaking book summarizes current research
into how young children learn mathematics and how best to develop foundational …

This important new book synthesizes relevant research on the learning of mathematics from
birth into the primary grades from the full range of these complementary perspectives. At the …

Children's symbolic number sense was examined at the beginning of first grade with a short
screen of competencies related to counting, number knowledge, and arithmetic operations …

Early behavioral self-regulation is an important predictor of the skills children need to be
successful in school. However, little is known about the mechanism (s) through which self …

Effective mathematics education for young children (approximately ages 3 to 5) seems to
hold great promise for improving later achievement, particularly in low-SES students who …

The purpose of the present study was to determine if numeral knowledge—the ability to
identify Arabic numerals and connect Arabic numerals to their respective quantities …

A fundamental question has spawned fervent debates in classrooms and on Capitol Hill:
How do we best educate children to be successful in a global, ever-changing world? Here …

Children's early mathematics skills develop in a cumulative fashion; foundational skills form
a basis for the acquisition of later skills. However, non-mathematical factors such as working …