Studies show that number is a fundamental component of the world children know. Babies show numerical competence almost from the day they are born. In fact, children enter the world prepared to notice number as a feature of their environment.
Most of what preschool children know about number is determined by their developing understanding and mastery of counting. Think about how complex the task of counting is! It involves thinking, perception, and movement.
As children learn to count, their thinking changes in a way that shapes their concept of number.
Learning a list of number names up to 100 is a challenging task for young children. However, the structure of the number names is a major influence of the difficulties children have in learning to count correctly. These difficulties have important implications for the initial learning of mathematics in elementary school.
The desire to quantify the world around them seems to be a natural one for young children. They are positively inclined to do and understand mathematics when they first encounter it.
Play counting games with your preschooler and watch the wonder!!!
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