Where should learners reach ?
- Getting concept of numbers"
- 1. Cardinal number: To abstract the numbers through the one to one correspondence between sets.
- 2. Ordered number: number is used to represent the order of elment in a sequence.
Both concepts are understanded through concrete manipulation.
- Counting the numbers"
- To correctly count the number and order of objects.
- It is necessary to correctly say numeral in order to count the number of elements of a set, and to be able to say correctly numeral is not enough for counting the number of elements of a set. In order to count the objects, it is necessary to get clearly the gathering of objects as a set and to corresdond the objects with the numeral by one to one.
- Representing and reading the numbers"
- To enable children to correctly represent the number and order of objects by using figures, and through these activities, understand the concept of numbers.
- To correctly represent the number and order of objects.
- To correctly read the numbers up to ten.
- Size of numbers and the sign <,= and >
- To compare the numbers of objects by manipulation such as one-to-one correspondence
- To know about the size and order of numbers, to make a sequence of them.
- To represent the relation of the sizes of numbers by the sign >, = or <.