Numbers are abstract, but babies seem to grasp them mentally and experientially when we count. Although their understanding of numbers may not be exact at first, counting does make a difference.

As children grow older, they begin to map number words to collections of objects, for example, “two socks,” and by age 2, many children can subitize up to three items, and 4- and 5-year-old ...

Numbers & Counting Teaching Your Four-Year-Old Numbers and Counting Even before school starts, young children are learning math through daily routines and activities.

These assumptions immediately give us the list of counting numbers: 0 + 1 = 1, 1 + 1 = 2, 2 + 1 = 3, and so on, a progression that continues without end. You might wonder why these two rules are ...

Numbers & Counting Teaching Your Three-Year-Old Numbers and Counting Even before school starts, young children are learning math through daily routines and activities.