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Throughout Tiffany Trevenen’s more than 30-year career in Moffat County schools in Craig, Colo., she has seen students experience the same math struggles again and again. “It was very apparent in ...

My first graders ended this school year asking for more math. I know—I am still surprised myself, not because I ever doubted my students (in my decade of teaching, that has never happened!), but ...

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Six-year-olds can't really talk to adults about the problems they may experience with mathematics. It is hard for teachers to know for certain who is keeping up and who is lagging, says Prof Elizabeth ...