First grade math success starts with strong readiness skills, early assessments, and engaging instruction. Educators and parents can work together to identify gaps early and use targeted tools to ...

Let’s say you’re a parent helping a Grade 1 child with their math, and they’re subtracting eight from 17, using small items — counters — like Smarties, multicoloured Rocket candies or Lego pieces. The ...

Relating addition and subtraction and playing the game BUMP; counting down. Relating addition and subtraction and playing the game BUMP; Working with numbers, starting with a number and counting down ...

Math is a hierarchical field, building sequentially on prior concepts. Likewise, math standards in each grade presume that ...

New data on academic performance for 1st through 8th grade students this fall in reading and math show that across the board, students are not doing as well as their peers were before the pandemic.