Learning and Teaching Early Math Quotes

“From the first years of life, children have an ability to learn math and develop their interest in math. What they know when they enter kindergarten and first grade predicts their mathematics achievement for years to come—even throughout their school career. Moreover, what they know in math predicts their reading achievement later. Their early knowledge of literacy also predicts their later reading ability … but that’s all. Because math predicts later math and later reading, mathematics appears to be a core component of cognition (Duncan et al., 2007; Duncan & Magnuson, 2011).”
― Douglas H. Clements, Learning and Teaching Early Math: The Learning Trajectories Approach