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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Many people around the world learn to count on their fingers, but we don't all do it in the same way. Could there be a better method? How would you count to 10 on your fingers? Do you start with the ...

Jean-Charles Pelland's work has been made possible by financial support from the ‘QUANTA: Evolution of Cognitive Tools for Quantification’ project, which has received funding from the European ...

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 ...

Some 60,000 years ago, in what is now western France, a Neanderthal picked up a chunk of hyena femur and a stone tool and began to work. When the task was complete, the bone bore nine notches that ...