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The other day she ran by three garbage cans, paused, and counted them: "Three, two, one!" She knew there were three there just by looking, she didn't need to count up first.
A few days later we were setting the table. We determined that we needed five plates, and that two of them were for kids. How many grown-ups? The normal way to figure this out would be to count each grown-up, but instead she held up her five fingers, took down two for her and her sister, and came to the same answer: Three! This is, of course, a far more sophisticated (and useful) way of doing that problem. Bright girl :)
A few days later we were setting the table. We determined that we needed five plates, and that two of them were for kids. How many grown-ups? The normal way to figure this out would be to count each grown-up, but instead she held up her five fingers, took down two for her and her sister, and came to the same answer: Three! This is, of course, a far more sophisticated (and useful) way of doing that problem. Bright girl :)
