Lovevery Wooden Stacking peg board

Why do this The ability to represent an amount mentally without counting is called 'subitizing. We develop a sense for how numbers work before we can count verbally. Your child is beginning to understand quantity-determining that one item added to another makes two, and one item taken away from two makes one. How to do it • Talk about quantity, using terms like: more, less, many, half, and piece-"you have all of the pegs on the board" or "you have fewer pegs than I do" • Show them that you can sort the pegs into groups by color; they're starting to notice color as an attribute • It is common for children at this age to start by saying a color name that doesn't match the actual color-this means they're starting to understand the concept of color