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, ...

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 ...

Using number words in context with young children, instead of just counting with them, might help them understand how numbers apply to the real world, a researcher at UC San Diego reports. David ...

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

It’s natural to think that mathematics is primarily about numbers. In school, we first learn how to recite numbers and then spend considerable time writing them down and manipulating them on paper. Of ...

CHILDREN’S literature authors Antonia Pesenti and Hilary Bell have followed on from enlivening the alphabet to tackle numbers in a colourful new book. Numerical Street is a compilation of beautiful ...

PITTSBURGH, March 28 (UPI) -- Board games are a good way to raise low numerical ability in children from low-income families, U.S. researchers suggest. The study, published in the March/April Child ...

Damian Scarf at New Zealand's University of Otago reports in the current issue of the journal Science that experiments he conducted with colleagues show that pigeons can learn abstract rules about ...