Finger Counting Enhances Math Performance

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New study shows 'huge' improvement in children's arithmetic with finger counting

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Swiss and French teams explored whether finger counting can help primary-school-aged children to solve math problems.

The research aimed to determine whether children who don’t count on their fingers can be trained to do so, and whether such training would result in enhanced arithmetic performance.

The study, published in the journal Child Development , focused on 328 five- and six-year-old children at kindergarten.

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