When it comes to math, child care providers often emphasize counting. Counting involves memorizing the number words in the proper order (one, two, three, four, five…). Young children are capable of recognizing numbers from one to 10. They can learn the number names as well as recognizing the number symbols.
One-to-one correspondence is being able to use this knowledge to skillfully count an actual number of objects. A child that understands one-to-one correspondence knows that 2 cookies = 2 or …