Counting on fingers really does help youngsters improve ... and tested their abilities to solve simple addition problems. Participating children were recruited through their teachers who ...

Doing maths on your fingers can function as good building blocks for smart kids and come extremely handy in teaching kids maths. Do you tend to double-check or have a habit to count on your fingers?

Many people around the world learn to count on their fingers, but we don't all do it in the same way. Could there be a better method? How would you count to 10 on your fingers? Do you start with ...

Using fingers to count is an important part of learning maths in young children, researchers have found. They found that children who learned to count with their fingers, in combination with ...

A mother called me to report that her 5-year-old daughter had come home from school crying because her teacher had not allowed her to count on her fingers. This is not an isolated event—schools ...

It's a tried and tested method for counting, and now research has found that using fingers can help young children with their maths. A new study suggests that playing finger games - such as ...

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.

It is no accident that finger counting is an almost universal stage in the child's learning of arithmetic (though it is unclear where one ancient New Guinea culture fits in - it has a 33 base ...