Number concepts can be found everywhere in the world around us. Number sense develops naturally when children connect numbers to their own life experiences, and begin to use numbers as benchmarks and references. Through experiences with number concepts, children will develop multiple ways of thinking about and representing numbers. Opportunities to explain their thinking and reasoning through questions and discussion will strengthen their connections and deepen their understanding and awareness of number concepts.
We began our focus by working on counting activities, where children learned the word names for numbers and began to use them in the correct order. They were provided with daily experiences and pratise to help strengthen and reinforce their understanding of counting. Through these experiences, children developed counting strategies, learned to assign each object with one number (one-to-one correspondence), and recognized that when counting, the last number named represents the total number of objects in a set. By incorporating dice and dominoes into their play, children learned to recognize small groups of objects without having to count (subitizing). We introduced the ten-frame and tally marks to focus on building number relationships with five and ten.
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