For effective learning of number concepts, the children need to acquire some preliminary concepts called the pre-number concepts and Ordering is one of the stage of pre-number concepts. Which one of the following example best describes the ordering stage?
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Children need to look at the characteristics of different items and find characteristics that are the same.
2
Children look at items and compare by understanding difference like big/little, hot/cold, smooth/rough, tall/short, heavy/light.
3
Child acquires the conservation of length, area, volume and mass and the sense of invariance.
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Children have to be able to put items in an order so they are counted once and only once.