Overpower the ’strong’ number
Posted in Math on Jun 29th, 2009
Our son Noah started pre-kindergarten last September, having mastered numbers 1-10. He could count to 30. Now he gets hung up and refers to the number 9 as “the strong number” and can’t call it nine without prompting. It seems he’s gone backward! The teacher says “it happens.” How can we help him? What’s this [...]