Your child is learning new things every day. And just as you can help them with their language and reading, there are also ways you can boost your preschooler’s number skills. This is especially ...

CHILDS VOICE: Welcome to counting with Rooodd! RODD: Oh Heh! Number squad! It's you! Thank you - you are too kind!! Oh… a package! Ah…. Be right back. Ooh, heh heh … how exciting. I wonder what it is.

Children develop a sense of what counting is years before they can say ”one”, “two” and “three”, scientists have discovered. Researchers found toddlers as young as 14 months who hear objects being ...

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 ...

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 ...

Infants and animals are able to understand approximate quantities of different types, in terms of relative proportions of the numbers of different sets of objects, provided the difference in numbers ...

Silke Goebel has received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (UK), the British Academy and the Experimental Psychology Society. Counting feels utterly effortless to adults, who are ...