Counting Priniciples
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Big Ideas of Early Math
Bonus
100

What is the principle that states numbers must be said in a specific order each time?

Stable Order 

100

What is the ability to understand numbers and how they relate to each other?

Number Sense

100


What Big Idea?

____________ can be used to find out “how many” is in a collection. 


Counting 

100

What is a figure, symbol, or group of these denoting a number?

Numerals

200

Matching each object in a set with a single, unique number or corresponding object, ensuring that each item is counted only once and only associated with one specific value, is what counting principle?

 One to one correspondence

200

What is the name of the learning disability that affects a person's ability to understand and use numbers?

Dyscalculia [dis-kal-kyoo-lee-uh]

200

What Big Idea?

Technically speaking,______________ is any process that produces a quantitative description of an attribute, such as length, circumference, weight, temperature, volume, or number.

Measurement  

200

What is it called when the whole class counts aloud together?

Choral Counting

300

What principle of counting is the idea that the final number you say when counting a group of objects tells you how many objects there are?

Cardinality

300

What are numbers that indicate position or order, such as first, second, or third?

Ordinal Numbers

300

What Big Idea am I describing?

Any collection that is grouped together in some meaningful way. In fact, in order to learn the names of things, children must create ____ in their mind, like the set of “dogs” that includes their own dog, the neighbor’s dog, and that dog that barks at us on the way to preschool.

Sets 

300

What is the routine that involves whole-class participation with each person saying a number as they count around a circle?

A Count Around

400

What principle is the understanding that the order in which objects are counted does not change the total number of objects?

Order Irrelevance

400

What is a characteristic used to place items into sets called? 

An Attribute

400

What Big Idea?

Number ___________ are the tools we use to find the answers to questions like these and to compare numbers of objects when a story is present in everyday life.

 Operations 

400

What is the name of the game we played last week to review our course content?

I Have...

Who Has?

500

What principle in counting is the idea that you can count anything, including things that are not physical?

Abstraction

500

Experts agree that this kind of counting takes place only after students master the principles of counting.

Rational Counting 

500

What big ideas of early math have we covered so far?


Sets, Number Sense, and Counting

500

Professor Battin was in what branch of the military?

Air Force

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