By the numbers. (Letters).While applauding the work on infant recognition of numbers and arithmetic, it seems prudent that allowance be made for clues in the environment ("Numbers in Mind," SN: 6/22/02, p. 3.92). For example, Arabic numbers themselves contain numbers of end points that can be used to count that many items. I personally used that method in kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be when we were made to stop counting on our fingers. The numeral numeral, symbol denoting anumber. The symbol is a member of a family of marks, such as letters, figures, or words, which alone or in a group represent the members of a numeration system. 4 has four points, and 2 has two ends. By the time you get to 7, 8, and 9, you've memorized them. Even when I won a gold medal gold medal traditional first prize. [Western Cult: Misc.] See : Prize in math in high school, I noticed I still used my old counting method for adding and subtracting small numbers. RICK MERRILL, BOLTON, MASS. The research shows that babies perceive quantity, not that they counted. My work shows that young children can learn to recognize quantity without counting. They easily learn quantities 1 to 4 as similar to showing fingers, while 5 is distinguished from 4 because 5 has a middle and 4 does not. They learn quantities 6 to 10 as 5 plus 1 to 5, similar to fingers or the Roman numeral VIII as 8. JOAN A. COTTER cot·ter n. 1. A bolt, wedge, key, or pin inserted through a slot in order to hold parts together. 2. A cotter pin. [Origin unknown. , HUTCHINSON, MINN MINN Minnesota (old style) . |
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