.:: Reflective Mode Part 2 - Place Value Sequence ::.

~ Missing all the fun in class ~

I am positive that Lesson 4 was amazingly FUN! Sad to say I wasn't able to attend due to work commitments. As if missing all the magic math tricks wasn't enough for me, my fellow comrades added more salt to my open wound. By tagging me with their lovely having so-much-fun-pictures. Boohoo!
Thanks anyway for the updates :)



Listening to the tasks which they had to do, I went on to explore the Chapters assigned (Chap 8-13). Phew! That's a lot of reading and reflecting.. Here's my two cents worth of thoughts on number sense:



I believe most children start with rote counting whereby they have the knowledge of numbers through memorization. Recognizing one and two digits in numerals is the next sequence. From then children generally move on to one-to-one correspondence counting. Recognition of number names in relation to their number value is next in line. At this stage children are capable of counting in sequence and beginning to recognize the number names that come with each value. Counting and groupings (tens and ones) would come subsequently as children develop the understanding of counting in tens and ones. I regard expanded notation as the "advanced" learning concept whereby they would be able to process and develop that understanding after they have a deep insight of basis numeracy knowledge.