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 ...

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

Preschool children seem to grasp the true concept of counting only if they are taught to understand the number value of groups of objects greater than three, research shows. Seeing that there are ...

There are several stages involved in learning to count and children need the help of adults to master each of the stages. These include children firstly learning the 'sounds' and labels of numbers.

Learning what numbers mean is challenging, and this becomes trickier when numbers have more than one digit. Photo / 123rf When children start school, they learn how to recite their numbers (“one, two, ...

We use numbers everyday so it’s easy to forget that counting isn’t just about learning numeracy skills, it also involves a lot of new vocabulary for Early Years learners. Getting familiar with ...

Teaching preschoolers to actually count numbers—not just recite them—will better prepare them for success in math once they start school, new research from the University of Missouri suggests.

It generally takes until preschool age for children to understand that a word like “four” represents a set, but new research from Johns Hopkins University suggests infants understand the concept of ...