If your child loves patterns, puzzles, or even lining up their toys "just right" you might be raising a future math genius.

"I thought, No way. Babies probably can't count, and they certainly don't count the way that we do," she says. But the seed was planted, and vanMarle started down her path of study.

“When children count objects they don’t [necessarily] know that the last number they say indicates how many there are,” Rittle-Johnson explained. Memorizing the sequence 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and pointing to ...

Try to incorporate basic math concepts into everyday activities. Have your child count objects regularly and pose easy counting challenges, such as counting the number of steps on a flight of ...

Mothers supported their children's math skills in a variety of ways, helping their children count objects, identify written numbers, or label the size of sets of objects.

How do children learn to count? When your little one has learnt how to say numbers in the right order, usually going up to five or 10, it’s then on to the hard (er!) bit. “They then have to ...

Mathematics are an essential part of life today. So very young children must grapple with the complex process of learning to count. Counting is not just a new idea, it's also a whole new set of words.

Another important hallmark of the sensorimotor stage is that children learn the concept of cause and effect. The idea of causality is when a child understands that they can move objects with their ...