Buffalo News: Math education professors start at square one

A Buffalo News feature story profiles Graduate School of Education researchers Doug Clements and Julie Sarama whose Building Blocks curriculum is used by thousands of preschools nationwide to teach children mathematics fundamentals using shapes, play and conversation. The article reports a year ago they won a $2.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop "Connect4 Learning," preschool classroom lessons that fuse math with science, literacy and social-emotional skills.