Parents on MSN

First grade is a big year—here’s everything your child will learn

See what educational milestones your child will achieve, what first graders learn, and how to help them master these skills ...
PsyPost on MSN

Abacus training is linked to better math and memory skills in elementary students

Elementary school students who learn to calculate using a mental abacus tend to perform better on math tests than their peers ...
Popular Mechanics

Adults Can't Seem to Understand This Math Problem for First Graders. Can You?

Is Oglethorpe University's Bill Shillito right? What does this math problem mean? You love numbers. So do we. Let's nerd out over numbers together. The shared problem follows a now-common formula with ...
U.S. News & World Report

What Should a First Grader Know?

Education experts have a solid answer. If kindergarten is about transitioning away from the play-based learning of preschool, then first grade is about stepping fully into the world of academics. “The ...
Green Bay Press-Gazette

What can Wisconsin first-graders expect as they start this school year? We asked the experts: former first-graders

Incoming first-graders offered advice to students starting first grade this year. Many students said they were nervous on their first day but made friends quickly. Reading, math and making friends ...
The News-Gazette

More Vermilion County first-graders put to test in math challenge

Mark Denman Elementary School first-grader Jeremiah Denson works on a fraction problem. Josie Scates, 7, from Bismarck-Henning, works on a math problem at the Danville District 118 First Grade Math ...