We learn to count at such an early age that we tend to take the notion of abstract numbers for granted. We know the word “two” and the symbol “2” express a quantity that we can attach to apples, ...

Your child is learning new things every day. And just as you can help them with their language and reading, there are also ways you can boost your preschooler’s number skills. This is especially ...

"Numbers are a human invention, and they’re not something we get automatically from nature," says Caleb Everett. Kwangmoozaa/iStock Once you learn numbers, it’s hard to unwrap your brain from their ...

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 ...

Leaning to count is the first mathematical concept taught to young children. By seeing, hearing and writing numbers over and over, young children learn number recognition, number order and one-to-one ...

Claire Bowern receives funding from the USA's National Science Foundation and the Australian Research Council. Ray Norris wrote recently that he thought some academic researchers were unaware of the ...