Counting & One-to-One Correspondence
How to teach your kindergartener to count objects accurately by touching each one exactly once, and to understand that the last number counted tells how many.
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Your child is learning to count a group of objects accurately by touching or pointing to each object exactly one time as they say the number â this is called **one-to-one correspondence**. They are also learning the **cardinality principle**: the last number they say when counting a group tells them the total amount ('how many'), not just the last item's name. Together, these two ideas turn counting from a memorized rhyme into real understanding of quantity.
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