The goals for students’ math skills in Grades PK-2 include gaining a rich conceptual understanding of what numbers are and how they work together. Understanding the Learner Factors and strategies that impact math skills and how they connect to each other can help you build tools and lessons that support all learners.
Our research highlights several key themes about teaching and learning Math at the PK-2 level
Early number knowledge and math skills are fostered by children’s Home Learning Environment.
Children’s ability to perform simple arithmetic Operations, including addition and subtraction of multiple numbers, is a foundational math skill and is predictive of later math success.
Students must be persistent and work through the challenge of gaining a deep conceptual understanding of mathematics.
To create each Learner Variability Project Learner Model, we follow a systematic methodology led by our expert researchers. The process is also overseen by an advisory board of leading content area and learning sciences experts.
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Early number knowledge and math skills are fostered by children’s Home Learning Environment.
Children move from reciting the count sequence (1,2,3,4...) without conceptual understanding, to understanding what this order means, and eventually developing Cardinality—an understanding of how many items are in a set.
Children’s ability to perform simple arithmetic Operations, including addition and subtraction of multiple numbers, is a foundational math skill and is predictive of later math success.
Flexibly representing numbers in different ways allows students to better understand them, how they relate to each other, and how to best work with them to solve problems.
Students must be persistent and work through the challenge of gaining a deep conceptual understanding of mathematics.
Students rely on support from teachers and caregivers to model positive attitudes towards math, as they may pick up on math anxiety and internalize it themselves.
Early number knowledge and math skills are fostered by children’s Home Learning Environment.
Children move from reciting the count sequence (1,2,3,4...) without conceptual understanding, to understanding what this order means, and eventually developing Cardinality—an understanding of how many items are in a set.
Children’s ability to perform simple arithmetic Operations, including addition and subtraction of multiple numbers, is a foundational math skill and is predictive of later math success.
Flexibly representing numbers in different ways allows students to better understand them, how they relate to each other, and how to best work with them to solve problems.
Students must be persistent and work through the challenge of gaining a deep conceptual understanding of mathematics.
Students rely on support from teachers and caregivers to model positive attitudes towards math, as they may pick up on math anxiety and internalize it themselves.
