On a recent morning in South Seattle, Kristin Alfonzo challenged her preschoolers to make the number 7 using beads strung across two rows of pipe cleaners. One 5-year-old boy slid four beads across ...
Can a four-year-old master fractions, or even learn algebra, in pre-school? Not quite, but data from the National Research Council show the earlier children are exposed to any kind of focused math ...