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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 the ...

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 what numbers mean is challenging, and this becomes trickier when numbers have more than one digit. Photo / 123rf When children start school, they learn how to recite their numbers (“one, two, ...

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 games ...

A red knot is a tiny shorebird that makes an epic 9000-mile journey all the way from the arctic to the tip of southern Chile and back. Biologists and nature enthusiasts congregate at various points ...

Some 60,000 years ago, in what is now western France, a Neanderthal picked up a chunk of hyena femur and a stone tool and began to work. When the task was complete, the bone bore nine notches that ...