You may not be counting on your fingers, but your brain is. To see how the mind works while performing arithmetic, Ilaria Berteletti,an educational neuroscientist at Gallaudet University, ...

Turns Out, Counting on Your Fingers Makes You Smarter. Children who have better perception of their hands tend to be more skilled at math, research shows. By . Jo Craven McGinty. Share.

Adults tend to want their children to outgrow using their fingers to solve number problems. "The finger technique is considered to be a less intelligent way of counting and calculating," Aditya ...

Counting on fingers really does help youngsters improve their maths skills, according to a new study. The research is the ...

Or count with your fingers as your kids do household chores. When you let your child's fingers do the counting, you're setting the table for strong math skills.

Researchers found that when 6-year-olds improved the quality of their finger representation, they improved in arithmetic knowledge, particularly skills such as counting and number ordering.

So if anyone teases you for counting on your fingers, just tell them you find your digits quite handy! Support For Indiana Public Media Comes From. About A Moment of Science.

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Kids learn to count on their fingers, because they're so, well, handy! And it makes sense--most number systems originally developed as people counted using their fingers. The counting system of ...