The following is an excerpt from Thinking in Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math, by Daniel Tammet, out now from Little, Brown. Ask an Icelander what comes after three and he will answer, “Three ...

Children develop a sense of what counting is years before they can say ”one”, “two” and “three”, scientists have discovered. Researchers found toddlers as young as 14 months who hear objects being ...

Infants and animals are able to understand approximate quantities of different types, in terms of relative proportions of the numbers of different sets of objects, provided the difference in numbers ...

Many people use one finger to count a number when asked, 'Use both fingers to count numbers.' In this How to count, to be counted using both hands is up to 0 to 10, more than to count the number of, ...

When faced with choosing the shortest queue at a supermarket, what do you do? Nobody starts counting – what our brain does is “number sensing”. The ability to gauge numbers occurs without knowing how ...

Using number words in context with young children, instead of just counting with them, might help them understand how numbers apply to the real world, a researcher at UC San Diego reports. David ...