Counting

Question 1

What is choral counting and why is it effective?

Answer 1

Counting as a group
It is effective because children will be more comfortable to make mistakes

Question 2

What is the nominal aspect of number?

Answer 2

A label (bus no. 3)- seeing it in normal circumstances

Question 3

What is the ordinal aspect?

Answer 3

The image of a number line

Question 4

What is the cardinal aspect?

Answer 4

Indication of how many there are in a set of things/items
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🟡🟢🟣🟣. (8 in total)

Question 5

What is the abstraction principle?

Answer 5

Counting can be applied to diverse items like toys of different kinds, colour, or shape

Question 6

Define the one-to-one principle

Answer 6

Tagging just one item per number word
1️⃣📀
2️⃣📀📀
3️⃣📀📀📀

Question 7

Define stable-order principle

Answer 7

Always the same repeated order
1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣…

Question 8

What is the order-irrelevance principle?

Answer 8

The child has to learn that the order of enumeration (from left to write or right to left) is irrelevant
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Question 9

What are the milestones to look out for in the evaluation of a child’s understanding of the principles of counting?

Answer 9

1. They can count each object only once and say one number name for each object
2. When they count, they say the numbers in order
3. When they count the objects in a group, they know that the last number they say tells them the total for the group
4. They can count anything (things that cannot be touched or seen, like sounds)
5. They know it doesn’t matter what order they count in, the total will be the same