This activity was developed for our graduate students (prospective early childhood teachers). It helps adults to understand how determining how many can involve many different strategies and ideas.by Herbert P. Ginsburg
In this activity prospective or practicing teachers attempt to learn to count in a foreign language (Farsi). The experience is designed to help them understand how children feel when they learn to count,
The idea of how many is deep, abstract, and cognitively demanding, involving learning number words and figuring out of the number of objects in a collection. Ben illustrates learning what how many really means.by Herbert
Learning to count is more than memorizing the words from one to ten. Memory is crucial, but so are ideas. Ben’s example can help you understand this. by Herbert P. Ginsburg
A thinking story about one child’s counting from one to 99 (she says she has to ask her mother about what comes after that). A thinking story is a written narrative presented along
