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MARCH 3, 2025

Recognizing the role of early numeracy skills in academic and career readiness can unlock transformative opportunities for student success. Early numeracy encompasses fundamental mathematical concepts and skills young learners acquire before formal schooling. For example: Early numeracy is not just about learning numbers.

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Cognitive Development Gamification STEM Math 96

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

While we often don’t think of ourselves as brain changers, when we teach we have an enormous impact on our students’ cognitive development. Proliferation is associated with brain building, and is highly dependent on childhood experiences like play, socialization and hearing stories read aloud. Teachers change brains.

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JULY 31, 2020

Michelle Lamont’s 7-year-old daughter, Savannah, was already struggling with reading when her school shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic in March. We want to make sure she has the confidence she needs [for reading], instead of being angry and frustrated and hating it.” Especially at this age, they’re gaining foundational skills.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

Most importantly, they walked away with a new activity to do together, just like reading a book or playing a board game. We also know from existing family literacy research that shared reading interventions and home reading programs can enhance children’s linguistic and cognitive development.

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Learning Cognitive Development Language Languages 148

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Much of the console game market, until recently, didn’t cater to children under 5, in part because at the younger end of this age range, many children don’t have the motor skills needed to maneuver a controller with features like joysticks and multiple buttons. Having that touch interface could lead to a bigger market.”

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Mobile Devices Cognitive Development Communication Language 202

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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Pima Community College in Arizona offers students Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training instruction—a model that helps students strengthen their math, reading and writing skills while they prepare for a career—only in subjects that lead to jobs with “family-sustaining wages,” such as information technology and construction.

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Education Cognitive Development Motivation Skills 161

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AUGUST 4, 2021

On one hand, I really want to respect cognitive development, and on the other hand, I also dream to be a proud mom,” Hu says. “I With their advanced degrees and English-language skills, they represent a selective set of perspectives. Other observers read between the lines and discern another motivation.

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Culture English Exams Cognitive Development 161

Teach Hub

MAY 24, 2024

From fostering cognitive abilities and emotional resilience to enhancing academic performance and learning lifelong skills, art class provides much more than just a creative outlet. Cognitive Skills Art classes play a critical role in developing a student’s cognitive skills.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

He believed children’s cognitive development and scientific thinking grew through stages of self-constructed knowledge structures—and that they need to actively work through exploratory activities that allow them to discover and construct their own world. In his view, there was hope for every child. Learning Stories.

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AUGUST 30, 2023

But there’s been less attention paid to what math skills students need early in life, to set them up for elementary school in the first place. The resultant randomized controlled trial, “ Boosting Parent-Child Math Engagement and Preschool Children’s Math Skills ,” tried to hoist up the math skills of children ages 3 through 5 in Chicago.

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