Inside Education On 103.2 Dublin City Fm

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. In this episode I speak to Professor Art Baroody from the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign about matters related to counting and early mathematical development. Professor Baroody shares insights from his extensive research in children's early mathematical learning with anecdotes from his life and work. Among the topics we discuss are: The word “count” is ambiguous; he prefers the terms verbal counting and object counting. Along with subitising, these are foundational for children’s sense of number. The rote portion of numbers (up to 12 in English) and the rule-governed portion of numbers (13 onwards in English) Being able to meaningfully count objects means understanding the cardinality principle How a teacher can assess a child’s competence in object counting. The “hidden stars” game. The importance of subitising (easily recognising, without counting, the number in a set). If a child can subitise small sets of objects and con