Ok, math people… We have introduced the concept of Ordinal numbering formally today. I need ideas on what to do with this, beyond the simple concept of first, second, etc. Lily has had direct exposure, but no exploration as of yet.
First (For her, this means she leads the way)
Second (This means it’s going to be a lot longer than either she wants it to be, or exactly as long as she chooses but likely not as quick as Mama would like)
Third (Fird)
Fourth (Fourf)
Fifth (This just gets funny)
Sixth (Sixt)
Ah… the lovely English “th”
The strange thing (for me) about ordinal numbers is that, as per anthropologists, the notion of ordinal numbers came before the notion of cardinal numbers. Do you know which Bugz discovered/understood first?
You can ask her to number each parts of her body–apparently that is what people used to do.
You can get some ideas here: http://www.classroomzoom.com/lessons/10396/caterpillar-fun-ordinal-numbers.
That might be interesting when you do your psychology classes: http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/society/som_final.html
Nominal came first, well, numerosity came first… but then nominal accompanied and lingered for a long time, in a sort of non-straight forward manner. From nominal came cardinal, sort of, but without complete independent comprehension. Then, somewhere in there ordinal set in and is understood, though she modifies the terminology a bit (thirdtfh – th still sounds like f).
The cardinal comprehension was solidly demonstrated in conjunction with this post. So, now all seem to be rather coming together, along with her demonstrating a beginning understanding of sum and differences with variables of a qty of up to about 4.
The article is interesting. One thing I’d like to study formally at some point is all that we actually do know of the brain and its development from before birth through puberty.
I will check out classroomzoom.. requires membership but might be useful at this point.
The strange thing (for me) about ordinal numbers is that, as per anthropologists, the notion of ordinal numbers came before the notion of cardinal numbers. Do you know which Bugz discovered/understood first?
You can ask her to number each parts of her body–apparently that is what people used to do.
You can get some ideas here: http://www.classroomzoom.com/lessons/10396/caterpillar-fun-ordinal-numbers.
That might be interesting when you do your psychology classes: http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/society/som_final.html