Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. The actress and mathematician says her latest release, out this fall, is all about “creating a happy, safe association with numbers” for ...

How many times a day do you sing the alphabet to your little one? Probably more times than you can count, right? With ABCs come 123s, and because children learn through repetition, you’re probably ...

In almost every home and pre-school in America, young children are being taught how to recite the alphabet and how to say their numbers. A new study by University of Chicago psychology professor Susan ...

When faced with choosing the shortest queue at a supermarket, what do you do? Nobody starts counting – what our brain does is “number sensing”. The ability to gauge numbers occurs without knowing how ...