Edutopia – Kwame Sarfo-Mensah 
One of the main reasons so many middle and high school students struggle to master grade-level math concepts is because they lack a strong foundation in numeracy skills. The incremental nature of mathematics requires students to develop their numeracy skills as they progress through the grade levels, but students can seem to be doing OK in the early grades even if they don’t fully understand some of the concepts.
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