The Curious Age — Page 3

Effective apps build all three foundational skills researchers say matter for lasting math success.

Strong number sense foundations matter more than early memorization drills.

Early signs of dyscalculia appear in how toddlers count and compare quantities.

Teaching number sense requires following a fixed developmental sequence, not shortcuts.

What your child understands about numbers before formal math instruction.

Understand how early reading fluency benchmarks actually work and when to act on them.

Decoding high-frequency words works better than memorization in science-of-reading classrooms.

Speech recognition struggles most with the children who need help reading the most.

Teaching sounds in the right order prevents reading struggles that compound year after year.

Early readers need explicit phonics practice through decodable books before moving to other texts.

Teaching the six components of reading explicitly, systematically, and from the start works.