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Overview
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Eager
to engage the world around them, young children are born explorers …
observing, naming, describing, manipulating, and counting the objects in
their world. For them, learning to
count is as natural as play.
Counting also serves as an informal introduction to the set of whole
numbers. There is more at stake when naming numbers than sound and rhythm,
however. In this section, we discuss counting systems through the lens of
different languages.
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