Students actively engage in tasks that are doable and interesting—which frees up time for personalized instruction.

Chardon Early Learning Center kindergarten students (clockwise, from bottom left) Cecilia Crane, Aubrey Andrews and Madison Titschinger are all smiles as they strategically lie on the carpeted floor ...

In Kristi Fowler’s transitional kindergarten classroom, 4-year-olds learn math by counting steps as they jump and by sorting objects by shape or color. They can skip-count by 10s to get up to 100 and ...

A LITTLE BOY, NO OLDER THAN 8, almost leaps out of his chair, screaming, “It’s so easy! It’s so easy!” Standing at the front of his classroom, Robert Kaplan, a teacher and cofounder of the Math Circle ...