Which of the following statements is not true regarding teaching 'Numbers' at the primary level?
1
Children come equipped with a set of intuitive and cultural ideas about numbers and simple operations.
2
Working with limited quantities and smaller numbers prevents overloading the child’s cognitive capacity.
3
Mathematical operations should be followed by the development of language and symbolic notations.
4
It develops a lack of a conceptual base that continues to haunt the child in later classes.