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, ...

A new study finds that in a Bolivian rainforest society, children learn to count just like in the United States, but on a delayed timetable. American children learn the meanings of number words ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are several stages involved in learning to count and children need the help of adults to master each of the stages. These include children firstly learning the 'sounds' and labels of numbers.