Monday, September 25, 2006

1, 2, 3

One of my students can't count. Let me rephrase that, she can count to about 15 or 20 without trouble, but when asked to choose the bigger of two one digit numbers, she gets it wrong about half the time. For those of you probability experts out there, that's the same as guessing, which I think she's doing. She has no sense of numbers representing things, unless she has those concrete things in front of her.

And I thought it was bad that I had students who used their fingers to add. I have my work cut out for me.

1 comment:

Mary said...

LD? Or just never learned?