Children who are skilled in understanding how shapes fit together to make recognizable objects also have an advantage when it comes to learning the number line and solving math problems, research at ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Learning numbers in a European language has probably affected your early maths ability. It turns out there are better ways to count. If I asked you to write down the number “ninety-two”, you wouldn’t ...

Scarlett Howard received funding from the Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship and is currently funded by the Fyssen Foundation. Adrian Dyer receives funding from the ...