Here’s a fun experiment: stop what you’re doing and use your hands to count to ten. Done? Good. Now remember how you did it, because we’re about to analyze your technique; as it turns out, how you ...

The abacus is considered the oldest calculating device used by humans but in the 1940s, a Korean man invented an abacus-like counting method using fingers called jisanbeop or chisanbop, a term that ...

Noah Eagle may not be ashamed to admit he likes the finger method, but everyone listening to his admission was probably a little ashamed by his phrasing. Midway through the fourth quarter of the ...

Counting on fingers really does help youngsters improve their maths skills, according to a new study. The research is the first to show that children's performance in arithmetic can show a "huge" ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about "scuba-diving" lizards, a trick to turn a mouse's skin transparent and whether finger counting helps kids' math skills.

Jennifer Way received funding from NSW Department of Education, Strategic Research Fund (2021–2024). ID: G212850. Katherin Cartwright received funding from NSW Department of Education, Strategic ...