Children begin learning numbers from everyday experiences. They hear numbers in conversations, nursery rhymes, songs, poems and picture books, they watch their parents print numbers and count out cookies for lunches. Poems and/or books such as, "10 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed" or "1, 2, 3, 4, 5,  Once I caught a fish alive", introduce children to the sounds of numbers. As children ... continue reading...

Children as young as two years old are developing an intuitive sense of number. Although they may not know how to count or understand what the words mean, they may be able to recognize a group of two or three objects. As children get older, they can recognize more objects in a group and can picture the group of numbers in their minds. As they develop more number sense, they learn that it ... continue reading...