Where Is My Child on the Counting Learning Progression?

Knowing where our children fall in the progression of counting skills allows us to ensure we are best supporting their early math growth.

Learning to Count, Skip CountingNeily BoydJanuary 8, 2020counting, early math, early number sense, preschool math, learning to count, how children learn to count, learning trajectory, learning trajectory counting, how to teaching counting

How Do I Know if My Child Has Developed One-to-One Correspondence?

One-to-one correspondence is an essential component of becoming fluent counters. But knowing that your child should develop this skill is very different than knowing if your child has developed it.

Learning to CountNeily BoydAugust 26, 2019one-to-one, one-to-one correspondence, learning to count, counting

Learning to Count by 10s

Without an understanding of what the counting sequence represents, reciting “10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60....” is as useless to your child as being able to recite “2, 7, 15, 23, 38.”

Learning to Count, Skip CountingNeily BoydAugust 18, 2019count by 10s, counting collections, counting with kids, learning to count, skip count by 10, skip counting, skip count, skip count by 10s, counting

Is It Time to Start Skip Counting?

Helping your child learn to skip count can be confusing for parents. In this post, I’ll address how you know when your child is ready to start skip counting.

Skip Counting, Learning to CountNeily BoydAugust 17, 2019skip counting, count by 10, count by 10s, skip count by 10s, skip count by 10

Counting Collections

Children love to collect things! Whether it’s a collection of 3 objects or 30 objects, allowing time to count those collections is one of the BEST ways you can support your child’s early math development!

Learning to CountNeily BoydJuly 29, 2019counting, number sequence, one-to-one, learning to count, counting collections, counting with kids, how children learn to count

Don't Forget About Zero

If one is the loneliest number, what does that make zero? In early childhood math, the answer is usually—forgotten. Zero is frequently overlooked in early math activities, but children as young as one are beginning to understand the concept of zero.

Learning to CountNeily BoydMay 19, 2019

There's More to Counting Than Just Counting

Let’s start at the very beginning: COUNTING! You know that we should teach our children how to count. But there is much more to counting than merely reciting the names of numbers.

Learning to CountNeily BoydMarch 2, 2019starting to count, rote counting, counting, one-to-one correspondence, cardinality, number recognition, number id

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