Babies understand counting long before being able to do it: study

Long before being able to count out loud, babies may already have a good understanding of what the concept of counting means. That's what researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, discovered in a study published Thursday in the journal Developmental Science. The study tried to answer one big question: Are kids really unaware what counting means until they’re in preschool? Scientists who specialize in building numerical ability in kids worked with 14 and 18-month-old b