In this video, we break down how children learn to count and how you can help. In this video, we break down how children learn to count and how you, as a family member of a young learner, can help ...

Five new counting books all share one essential strategy: to start a conversation. By Amy Alznauer A counting book is tricky to write, for it must inspire readers to do two things at once: to count ...

Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an effective way to teach counting might be by … not counting. That’s the ...

An understanding of numbers is often viewed as a distinctly human faculty—a hallmark of our intelligence that, along with language, sets us apart from all other animals. Practically every animal that ...

A new study finds that in a Bolivian rainforest society, children learn to count just like in the United States, but on a delayed timetable. American children learn the meanings of number words ...

When faced with choosing the shortest queue at a supermarket, what do you do? Nobody starts counting – what our brain does is “number sensing”. The ability to gauge numbers occurs without knowing how ...