MEDIA CONTACT:
Anna O’Sullivan
annao@zearn.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEW YORK, July 16, 2024 – As schools across the nation begin the 2024-2025 academic year, Zearn, the nonprofit organization solely dedicated to K-8 math, is releasing enhanced lessons to ensure every kindergarten student can engage in deep math learning. More than 100 digital math lessons accompanied with paper and pencil practice will not only support kindergarten students in learning to count and write numerals but also begin exposing them to the big ideas of math.
“In enhancing our kindergarten lessons, we are responding directly to what we heard from educators across the nation in our field research: in the past few years, young learners are entering school at a wider range of starting points than ever before,” said Zearn CEO & Co-Founder Shalinee Sharma. “The math students learn in kindergarten is important; in this early grade, students are already building an understanding of concepts that will carry through K-8 math learning.”
Zearn Math for Kindergarten is one part of a comprehensive math platform with over 1,000 digital lessons that cover every concept of K-8 math. Each lesson is designed with a consistent structure to help students develop fluency with math facts and gain a deeper understanding of new math concepts. To ensure that young learners can easily understand and navigate the digital platform, kindergarteners across the nation participated in more than 1,000 hours of testing and observation during development.
Educators use Zearn both as a complement to their teaching and flexibly across instructional times – during core instruction, intervention, tutoring or summer programs. As students work through these lessons, educators can view real-time data on students’ progress and see precisely where students need extra support.
For more information about Zearn for Kindergarten, visit about.zearn.org/kindergarten-math.
About Zearn
Zearn is the 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization behind Zearn Math, the top-rated math learning platform used by 1 in 4 elementary-school and more than 1 million middle-school students nationwide. For more information about Zearn for Kindergarten or work across the nation, contact Anna O’Sullivan at annao@zearn.org.
