Additional Counting Readings

Additional readings about the development of and mathematics of counting.  Download the articles directly from this page.

Developing Number Sense in Pre-kindergarten and Kindergarten Children

by Dorothy Y. White, The University of Georgia

This article provides a brief overview about supporting the development of young children’s ideas about number in early childhood classrooms.

The Principal Counting Principles

by Ian Thompson, Northumbria University

This piece provides a summary of Gellman and Gallistel’s (1978) five counting principles.

Counting – More than just 1, 2, 3

by The Early Math Collaborative, Erikson Institute

This chapter, from the book Big Ideas of Early Mathematics: What Teachers of Young Children Need to Know, provides an excellent introduction to the basic mathematics underlying counting.

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