This presentation is a resource produced by Louise Hodgson, a Community leader, for the Connect with Maths Early Learning in Mathematics online community.
It shows Charlotte at age 5 years demonstrating her understanding of counting principles and early additive thinking.
Her understanding of the Principles of Counting: touching, naming numbers touched in a conventional order. The documentation is from a 4 part presentation showing the progression of learning from 2 years to 5 years of age.
Principles of Counting
- Each object to be counted must be touched or ‘included’ exactly once as the numbers are said.
- The numbers must be said once and always in the conventional order.
- The objects can be touched in any order and the starting point and order in which the objects are counted doesn’t affect how many there are.
- The arrangement of the objects doesn’t affect how many there are.
- The last number said tells ‘how many’ in the whole collection, it does not describe the last object touched
- Watch the following videos of Charlotte counting at 5 years of age
- Discuss what counting principles Charlotte is exhibiting
- What impact to your pedagogy will occur for early learning settings?
