Chapter 7: counting and number sense in early childhood and primary years

- Early number sense

 Skip counting 2, 5, 10
 Patterns
 Classification, sorting, matching and comparing objects
 Writing numerals
 Counting: by role, fixed order numbers, grouping and the cardinal principle
- Number sense includes
 Intuitive understanding on quantities, patterns and relationships
 Operations of these numbers
 Useful and flexible strategies for handling numbers and operations
 Compute accurately/ efficiently, either mentally with pen and paper or with
technology
 Estimate quantity of collections in real world situations during or after
computation
 Discussing strategies to recognise how results are reasonable
 Disposition to use existing knowledge to reason
 Expectation that numbers are useful for solving real problems and that
working with numbers is meaningful and makes sense
- Stages of number sense development
1. Prenumber and informal number
 Sorting and classification
 Patterning
2. Early number development
 Conservation
 Subitising and group recognition
 Comparison and one-to-one correspondence
3. Number development and counting
 Connecting objects and events with number names e.g. oral
and written and cardinal and ordinal numbers
 Counting forward and backward
 Skip counting
 Establishing benchmarks of quantities such as 5 or 10
 Place value