Children who use their fingers to count between the ages of four and six-and-a-half may develop stronger addition skills by age seven, according to a new study from the University of Lausanne. The ...

Several previous classroom studies have shown that children who use finger strategies to solve maths questions perform better than children who do not, until around seven, when the opposite becomes ...

Kids who count on their fingers between 4 and 6 years old have better addition skills by 7 than those who don’t use their ...

Children who count on their fingers between ages 4 and 6 1/2 have better addition skills by age 7 than those who don't use their fingers, suggesting that finger counting is an important stepping stone ...