Concept and skills associated

with counting
 Aubrey (1993)

• Found the children entering reception classes

had already know the number.
• Ability to understand and use counting and to
use method recording.
 Finding Nursery School

The teacher probably find children enter

nursery will already have begun to develop
skills.
 Equivalence
• Refers to two sets which contain different
items but same of quantity.
• Children will begin to identify the numerical
equivalence of sets.
Example:
– A tray with 5 farm animal
– A tray with 5 toys car
 Key experience

Children need in order to become

successful at counting.
 These are opportunities to:
• Use language of quantity to make comparison
– They begin to develop their understanding of
equivalence or non equivalence.
– Can be develop by making comparisons between
sets.
Examples: farm pieces
– Encouraging the children to understand and use
language such as:
• Lots, few and too many