"Building students' confidence and conceptual understanding early helps teachers provide them a solid foundation for reasoning and exploration. In Nurturing Math Curiosity With Learners in Grades K-2, authors Chepina Rumsey and Jody Guarino posit that these capabilities will help students not only in mathematics but in all content areas and everyday life. Through the integration of mathematical argumentation in early elementary classrooms, teachers can give students' natural wonder and curiosity a place to shine-and at the same time, students may come to see mathematics content in a new light"--
