roanna Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 (edited) Thanks for the nice replies I am sure by now that many of the other accelerated moms think I'm crazy so to further not make myself look silly I just wanted to take my post off. I think if I had another hour to think about It I wouldn't have thought it was so interesting. Edited November 29, 2011 by roanna Silly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msk Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Oddly enough, I have a daughter the same age as yours who's been counting to 14 too, and we don't know where she learned it either. I'm not convinced it's true counting in my daughter's case-- I think she's just picked up the idea that pointing at objects and reciting those words in that particular order is a fun/important/grown up thing to do, rather than having a real understanding of numbers that high. It's amazing the things little kids can pick up without anyone consciously showing them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roanna Posted November 24, 2011 Author Share Posted November 24, 2011 So I guess that was a silly question , I'll just enjoy seeing what comes of it"...waiting for the turkey ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boscopup Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 She's probably overheard her older sibling or parents counting things at one time or another, even though you aren't practicing counting in school anymore. Counting is something that people do all the time in their daily lives. My 2 year old is also counting objects with one-to-one correspondence earlier than his brothers (though his oldest brother is quite mathy). I don't know if it will really have any affect on math ability or not, as my kids have good math genes from both parents, so I kind of expect them all to be mathy. Even the 5 year old who is still learning to count to 20 (he has speech/language delays, which seem to have delayed a lot of things) is picking up math facts that I haven't even taught him. He'll tell me that 3+3 is 6 or 4+4 is 8 or 8+2 is 10... and hey, that's the same as 5+5! I haven't taught him these things, but he's just learning them via osmosis, apparently. :001_huh: He's doing well with K-level math (technically a year early, but again, he's not noticeably "mathy" like some kids on this forum, including his older brother). He may turn out to be mathy afterall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embassy Posted November 27, 2011 Share Posted November 27, 2011 Not a silly question...all of my kids have done things like this and I wonder where in the world they learned it. I thought this was normal though. Is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lolly Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 I think you will see more and more of this. You have a 5 yo. The youngers will just pick things up. And, sometimes, the olders teach the youngers when you are not looking. My very youngest knew all sorts of things just from being around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunriseiz Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 our almost 3yo recently really started talking...and counting to 10 (sometimes 13). a few days ago ds looked at me and said "let's count: 1,2,3..." with his goldfish. dh and i just look at each other. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beaners Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 I didn't think it was silly! It is quite young and fairly unusual to be able to count that high with correspondence. You're just getting feedback from a population where unusual is normal! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunriseiz Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 I didn't think it was silly! It is quite young and fairly unusual to be able to count that high with correspondence. You're just getting feedback from a population where unusual is normal! :iagree: Not silly at all! And fun to watch!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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