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 ...

The study showed that playing "linear number board games" - where players move pieces along a straight numbered path, can ...

Playing number board games for just ten minutes helps young children build strong early math skills supporting economic ...

Teaching preschoolers to actually count numbers—not just recite them—will better prepare them for success in math once they start school, new research from the University of Missouri suggests.

When she was a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, Jinjing Jenny Wang kept wondering: How do children learn to count? It's so basic, "but when you think about the problem, it is really ...