A little information about us..
Hello everyone, our names are Linda, Selisitia, and Alicia. We are Ryerson fourth year Early Childhood Studies students. After we graduate, our passion is to work within a Kindergarten age group setting. Therefore, our focus for teaching verbal and object counting is based towards a Kindergarten age group. So for this workshop, we have provided a plethora of information on verbal and object counting, which includes different activities that can be implemented into a classroom, recourses and links from different educators and professionals that demonstrate different ways that verbal and object counting can be taught to Kindergarteners. All in all, we hope you find our activities and resources helpful. Enjoy!
history on counting
- Piaget was an influential theorist to early mathematics. His research was helpful to children's active role in learning and helped the children construct their mathematical ideas.
- Piagetians views for counting were that children need to develop the "logic" that underlies conversation of number before counting was meaningful.
- The logic that Piegatians believes consists of two types of knowledge.
- First is hierarchical classification- children must understand that each number includes those that came before.
- Second is sequencing- children have to both properly produce number words in sequence and sequence the objects they count so that they count each object exactly once.