In one study, students’ number competence in kindergarten — which includes the ability to understand number quantities, their relationships to each other, and the ability to join and separate sets of ...

Douglas H. Clements, Julie Sarama, Math, Science, and Technology in the Early Grades, The Future of Children, Vol. 26, No. 2, Starting Early: Education from Pre Kindergarten to Third Grade (Fall 2016) ...

Guanglei Hong, Stephen W. Raudenbush, Effects of Kindergarten Retention Policy on Children's Cognitive Growth in Reading and Mathematics, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Vol. 27, No. 3 ...

The predictive influence of learning-related competencies at the end of kindergarten on literacy and mathematics achievement trajectories in third and fourth grade Dominic Gullo, PhD Whitney ...

Researchers found that kindergarten readiness made it about 1.62 times more likely a student met third-grade Smarter Balanced Assessments in English and 1.72 times greater in math.