Early Math Skills
I went to Dunkins after picking Jill up from school yesterday to get a decaf iced coffee. As soon as I pulled up, Jill started asking for chicken nuggets, which she thinks you get at all drive throughs. I thought, "I never give her junk," and ordered four munchkins.
When we got home I put two munchkins on a plate and stashed the other two out of sight. When I brought them to Jill in the living room she went crazy. "I need two munchkins," she said. "You have two munchkins," I replied pointing to her plate. "No, not two munchkins on the plate. I need two munchkins," she insisted running into the kitchen, "I need one, two, three, four munchkins!"
Holy moly, she really spelled it out for me! She heard me order four munchkins, saw two on her plate, and was asking for the two that were missing. I never showed her how many we had. I need some educators to weigh in, but I think that was very good!
posted by Ronni @ 11:38 AM
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If my early childhood experiences with Head Start still hold true, I believe this is called one-to-one correspondence. Usually, children do not completely develop this skill until around four years of age. 'Pa and I agree that she is very advanced, not that we're biased or anything:)
I picked up this skill in Grad School.
Impressive, Jim!
Thanks for the professional assessment, Patty! The one thing that gives me pause about whether she actually knows 2+2=4, is that two is kind of Jill's default number. I need to conduct an experiment where I get 5 munchkins, give her two and see if she asks for the other three!
OK I'm cracking up at Jim's profile name. Just noticed it.
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