Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Using concrete tools or objects matters for fostering mathematical development – but how can children best learn to count by 10?

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 ...

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 ...

Counting gifts, counting toys or even counting the little fishies in the tank. For a child, there is no better feeling than getting the exact total numerical value of things they love so much present ...