Kids who count on their fingers between 4 and 6 years old have better addition skills by 7 than those who don’t use their ...

Children who count on their fingers between ages 4 and 6 1/2 have better addition skills by age 7 than those who don't use ...

A few weeks ago I (Jo Boaler) was working in my Stanford office when the silence of the room was interrupted by a phone call. A mother called me to report that her 5-year-old daughter had come home ...

Schoolkids who used finger tracing fared better with previously unseen geometry and algebra questions, new research has found. Studies involving 275 Sydney school children aged between nine and 13 ...

Preschool teachers have different views on finger counting. Some teachers consider finger counting use in children to signal that they are struggling with math, while others associate its use as ...

A quick look at the lengths of children's index and ring fingers can be used to predict how well students will perform on SATs, new research claims. Kids with longer ring fingers compared to index ...

Using fingers for counting or for solving basic math problems is something that every teacher and parents teach their kids at ...