"I'm not good at drawing hands..."I think many people feel that way. The fingers look weird.The palm and fingers aren't the ...

Finger tracing has been used by teachers to help students learn for more than a century. In the early 1900s, education pioneer Montessori encouraged young children to trace over letters of the ...

Students who trace certain maths problems with a finger are able to solve them more quickly and easily, University of Sydney research shows. Studies involving 275 Sydney school children aged between ...

A practice used by education pioneer Montessori in the early 1900s has received further validation, with studies showing that finger tracing makes learning easier and more motivating. Imagining an ...

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. Finger tracing has been used by teachers to ...