They observed that many young children will count objects without being asked to do so. Even before those children know the conventional words for numbers. Some children created their own words ...

“Children tend to think the only things you count are actual objects, but numbers are much more than that.” She suggests counting anything from smiles to claps to help your preschooler ...

The sensorimotor stage is the first of the four stages of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. It is marked by a child’s knowledge that the outside world exists separately from themselves.