Counting on fingers in primary school is not a sign of weakness but an important tool for learning mathematics, according to a long-term study by researchers in Switzerland published in Developmental ...

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 ...

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 fingers.

“Because we do so much multi-step problem solving, and we’re doing two-step word problems, if they’re spending 10-15 minutes trying to figure out what 9x7 is, they’re doing a lot of extra work, or ...