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Counting skills and number sense

Counting skills and number sense

Last updated 2 June 2025

Rote counting and Rational Counting
- Four Counting Principles: One-to-One Correspondence, Stable Order, Cardinality and Order Irrelevance
Number Sense
- Understanding the Relationship between Numbers and Quantities: Subitising, Conservation of Quantity, Comparison of Numbers, Part-whole Relationship

How can you develop number sense using manipulative and everyday objects?

slides on developing number sense with image of teacher teaching children how to count using building blocks

Read on!