Study proves kids who rely on their fingers to count perform arithmetic better when they grow up compared to those who don't.

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 ...

Children who count on their fingers between ages 4 and 6 1/2 have better addition skills by age 7 than those who don’t use their fingers, suggesting that finger counting is an important stepping stone ...

A core aspect of fairness is the ability to divide resources impartially among others. Previous research has shown that fair sharing behavior is a skill typically learned between the ages of four and ...

Infants and animals are able to understand approximate quantities of different types, in terms of relative proportions of the numbers of different sets of objects, provided the difference in numbers ...