Outdoor activities provide ample opportunities for math learning without any cost. Go on a nature walk where you ask your ...

The idea of an animal that can count or do math might sound like something out of a viral news story or TikTok video. But a sense of quantity, sometimes called "numerosity," appears across a ...

In almost every home and pre-school in America, young children are being taught how to recite the alphabet and how to say their numbers. A new study by University of Chicago psychology professor Susan ...

Skip counting is a useful skill if you need to count sets of objects, such as pairs of shoes, gloves, the wheels on a tricycle, or even money. Counting on in twos, threes, fives and tens is easy, if ...

Kids who count on their fingers between 4 and 6 years old have better addition skills by 7 than those who don’t use their ...

A child’s ability to understand and manipulate sets of numbers in 1st grade predicts how well he or she will succeed in the math required both in secondary school and for day-to-day living, according ...