Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... We know a lot about how babies learn to talk, and youngsters learn to read. Now scientists are unraveling the earliest building blocks of math — and what ...

Rob Stein Scientists have for the first time established a link between a primitive, intuitive sense of numbers and performance in math classes, a finding that could lead to new ways to help children ...

The Johns Hopkins team found a good correlation between mathematical ability and achievement, and an inherited ability to estimate a quantity number within a group (“number sense”). However, Halberda ...