Early number sense plays role in later math skills HEALTHBEAT: Scientists unravel how kids learn math, 1st grade abilities key to skills later on ...

We then explore ways that you can bring number sense into the home by recognizing the possibilities to talk about math in everyday life, including while clearing the breakfast table.

Share News in Science 'Number sense' boosts math skills: study Monday, 8 September 2008 AFP Research suggests humans have an innate ability to roughly estimate quantities in the blink of eye ...

A new study suggests that the strength of an infant's innate sense of numerical quantities can be predictive of that child's mathematical abilities three years later.

Those who lagged behind their peers in a test of core math skills needed to function as adults were the same kids who'd had the least number sense or fluency way back when they started first grade.

Math doesn’t add up for some kids, and a weak number sense may be partly to blame. An evolutionarily ancient ability to estimate quantities takes a big hit in children with severe, instruction ...

Babies who are good at telling the difference between large and small groups of items even before learning how to count will have great math skills.