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Children who start using their fingers early are more likely to become better at calculating later, a Swiss study has found. Photo: dpa/Marcel Kusch Counting on fingers in primary school is not a sign ...

What's the best way for children to learn arithmetic—memorizing number values and multiplication tables, or studying math at a deeper, conceptual level? Educators have long debated the merits of these ...