Teaching preschoolers to actually count numbers—not just recite them—will better prepare them for success in math once they start school, new research from the University of Missouri suggests.

A companion to her Kindergarten ABC, Jacqueline Rogers's latest paper-over-board primer, Kindergarten Count to 100, follows a boy as he heads off to class, noting the seven ""giant steps from the ...

When you count to 20, you start at 1 (or zero) and count on until you reach 20. Each number is one more than the last. When you count back from 20, you start at 20 and count back until you reach 1 (or ...

New research suggests reciting numbers is not enough to prepare children for math success in elementary school. The research indicates that counting, which requires assigning numerical values to ...

Kindergarten loomed and Baylor Bone Swindell didn't know what to do. Her son, Brady, had a late June birthday. Although he was old enough to meet Tennessee's birthday cutoff for children entering ...