Try this early maths check to see if your 6-8 year old counts on

‘Trusting the count stays the same’ is an important early understanding your young child needs to develop before number facts will make real sense.

Children have to understand that 9 objects will still be 9 no matter what, as long as nothing is added to or removed from that particular group of objects. When they understand this, and can count on, learning addition and subtraction number facts is easy.

The child in the clip counts on from 10 when the extra pegs are added. She does not need to count the 9 again first. She trusts her first count.

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