In a new paper, Stanford professor Jo Boaler argues that math teachers should use more visual approaches in their classrooms, including encouraging students to use their fingers to count and represent ...

Ilaria Berteletti, PhD, an educational neuroscientist at Gallaudet University in Washington D.C. told Ivanhoe, "There's different lines of evidence that suggest that fingers can be useful, especially ...

A recent study published in the journal Cerebral Cortex suggests that adults who are better at math tend to rely less on the ...

Preschool teachers have different views on finger counting. Some teachers consider finger counting use in children to signal that they are struggling with math, while others associate its use as ...

These Indian kids don’t need a calculator to solve mathematical operations in just seconds. They do it all in their heads using a mental abacus—an old Asian technique that allows them to visualize an ...