A Wesleyan University psychology professor and her students are finding out that preschool children are more than ready to learn math, as long as it’s fun. Professor Anna Shusterman, who stud… ...

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 ...

Learning to count not as easy as 1, 2, 3: Working with larger numbers matters Date: June 15, 2011 Source: University of Chicago Summary: Preschool children seem to grasp the true concept of ...

Have you ever wondered how toddlers learn to count? They start being able to group things from a very young age, but how do they start to understand numbers?

A Purdue University Northwest faculty member is studying how preschoolers best learn to count and related numerical concepts.

The most important are the California Preschool Learning Foundations, which were published in 2008 and outline the “foundational skills” and knowledge that children between four and five are expected ...

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Knowing the words for numbers is not necessary to be able to count, according to new research. The study of the aboriginal children -- from two communities which do not have words or gestures for ...

It generally takes until preschool age for children to understand that a word like "four" represents a set, but new research from Johns Hopkins University suggests infants understand the concept ...