Not exact matches
Math concepts such as fractions that students do not master in the
early grades can go on to confuse them later on and to cause them a great deal of
math anxiety.
Developing automaticity for
math facts
early in the academic career of NSCS students allows for greater ease of applications as students progress through the
math curricula and focus on advanced
concepts and applications
such as place value, time, money, story problems and complex problem - solving.
In their widely cited 2007 study of large longitudinal data sets, University of California Irvine, education professor Greg Duncan and his colleagues found that in a comparison of
math, literacy, and social - emotional skills at kindergarten entry, «
early math concepts,
such as knowledge of numbers and ordinality, were the most powerful predictors of later learning.»