Counting gives you an answer to the second question you ask...
...when you get the answer "no" to the question "are we almost there?"
Your family encouraged you to learn to sing the song. And then you learned that the sounds between pauses like "one" and "two" and "three" had a quantitative meaning. You learned to associate those sounds with things in your every day life like opening a carton of eggs and counting from one to twelve.
Maybe you knew how many eggs it would take to make scrambled eggs for the whole family, and scrambled eggs go great with buttered toast.
Project Egg Carton
Give yourself (or a young family member) a project. Count the number of eggs in the egg carton and count the number empty spaces. Write two numbers inside ( and ) separated by a comma and let the first number be the number of eggs and the second number be the number of empty spaces.
You will get pairs like 10,2 or 8,4 or 5,7.
Both numbers add to 12.
You will notice that the pairs are such that a given first number always gets the same second number.
We can take the pairs we find from this experiment and if we put them on a graph, we see a trend.
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