When children start school, they learn how to recite their numbers (“one, two, three…”) and how to write them (1, 2, 3…). Learning about what those numbers mean is even more challenging, and this ...

Understanding how children learn to count can have profound impacts on the kinds of instructional materials used in the classroom. And the way those materials are designed can shape the strategies ...

Take this quiz to see how much you know about this topic already, then work through the guide and see if you can beat your score. Here are some different ways of showing 10. There are 10 fingers on ...

An insomniac girl named Clarissa tries counting sheep to fall sleep, but it has the opposite effect: “A loud baa made her open her eyes, and to her surprise, she saw ten sheep in her room.” Counting ...

Helena Osana received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for this research. Jairo A. Navarrete-Ulloa receives funding from the National Agency for Research and ...