First grade teachers facing a class full of students struggling with math were more likely to turn to music, movement, and manipulative ... 15 percent of their kindergarten math achievement ...

Should students use objects, called manipulatives ... part of what led to patterns being taken out of the kindergarten common-core math standards? There was a National Mathematics Advisory ...

A “rekenrek,” counting sticks, number blocks and other Math manipulatives I don’t have ... enrolled my daughter in Kumon when she started kindergarten. But those who have tried the program ...