In this video, we break down how children learn to count and how you can help. In this video, we break down how children learn to count and how you, as a family member of a young learner, can help ...

A new study suggests that the strength of an infant's innate sense of numerical quantities can be predictive of that child's mathematical abilities three years later. Babies who are good at telling ...

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...

Parents have gotten the message that reading with their children can help instill lifelong literacy skills. A new study adds to the evidence that parents can be providing the same boost to numeracy ...

Researchers in the Purdue University Department of Human Development and Family Science (HDFS) want young children to go cuckoo for mathematics. Postdoctoral researcher Salvador R. Vazquez and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... We know a lot about how babies learn to talk, and youngsters learn to read. Now scientists are unraveling the earliest building blocks of math — and what ...

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 ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Babies who are good at telling the difference between large and small groups of items even before learning how to count are more likely to do better with numbers in the future, ...

Babies who are good at telling the difference between large and small groups of items even before learning how to count will have great math skills. Babies who are good at telling the difference ...