One

Bea has been telling us about some of the mathematical concepts going through her head! She is currently practicing, enjoying and exploring ONE! Bea likes to point to 1 thing and say, "one." If there are three objects she points to each saying, "one, one, one." In kindergarten and first grade, teachers recognize this important mathematical concept called one to one correspondence. It's hard to count bunches of things or add groups of things if you don't understand that each object gets only 1 number assigned to it. I think Nathan understands this too, but he sometimes demonstrates what it looks like if you aren't using one to one correspondence. When he's excited about a certain number, let's say... fourteen, he might look at a group of three things and tap his finger about twenty times in the general area of the group of objects and say, "one, two, three, four, ba, da, ba, da, ba, da, fourteen!" Its fun to watch Beatrice discover and communicate about her world... one thing at a time.