“Children tend to think the only things you count are actual objects, but numbers are much more than that.” She suggests counting anything from smiles to claps to help your preschooler ...

The sensorimotor stage is the first of the four stages of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. It is marked by a child’s knowledge that the outside world exists separately from themselves.

Parents and educators can use opportunities to help children count and label the total number of objects in everyday sets, such as blocks or cereal bits, the authors suggest. To explain how ...

The way the birds recognize and react to numbers is similar to a process we humans use, both to learn to count as toddlers and quickly recognize how many objects we’re looking at. The findings ...

Here’s a closer look at some of most important statistics for R.I. children and families on the economy, health and wellness, and education Rhode Island Kids Count is holding its annual ...