PROGRAM PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT * 3 HOURS * LEVEL 2
Math Exploration for Infants and ToddlersMath for Infants |
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If a new caregiver is working with an infant for the first time, the infant may not be comfortable with them and may show their feelings by fussing or crying. This is a very common way that young infants express classifying and sorting skills. They identify that this new caregiver is different than the person they are familiar with and will communicate that. This is an important math concept that infants learn at a very young age.
According to Elizabeth Brannon PhD from Duke University, infants are born with the innate ability to understand simple arithmetic concepts such as more or less. Infants obviously do not possess the verbalization or cognitive skills to align these concepts with words or symbols, but are able to identify that a group of 20 cookies is more than a group of 10 just by a simple glimpse. |
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