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Video Transcript

11–23 Months

Cognitive Development Foundation 2.1: Number Sense

Narrator: In the Cognitive Development domain, the strand Emergent Mathematical Thinking includes the foundation Number Sense. Children from 11 through 23 months notice quantity when playing with and exploring objects. They sometimes refer to quantities such as “more” and “all.”

Example 1

Text on screen: Notices quantity when playing with and exploring objects

On screen: 18-month-old WeiYi is playing independently on the floor. He has marker caps on his thumb and index finger like finger puppets. He knee-walks to where more marker caps are lying on the floor. One at a time, WeiYi places marker caps on two more fingers. Then he stops and examines his hand, wiggling his fingers slightly.

Example 2

Text on screen: Notices quantity when playing with and exploring objects

On screen: 15-month-old Gianna and her caregiver sit together on the floor. There are blocks scattered around them and a basket sitting between them. Gianna begins picking up the blocks around her and placing them in the basket one at a time.

Caregiver 1: One, two, back in the basket.

On screen: The caregiver counts each block as Gianna puts them in the basket.

Caregiver 1: Three… And four. Five. Six. You’re picking them all up and putting them in their basket? Thank you.

On screen: Gianna looks around. She has picked up all the blocks on the floor.

Example 3

Text on screen: Sometimes refers to quantities such as “more”

On screen: 18-month-old Noah sits at a low table with a caregiver and three other children. The children are eating pasta and vegetables as the caregiver talks to them.

Caregiver 2: You like pasta, too? Do you like pasta with, uh, red sauce? No? What kind of pasta do you like?

On screen: Noah scrapes his fork over his plate and notices he is out of pasta.

Noah: More pasta. More pasta.

Caregiver 2: You want more pasta?

On screen: Noah nods, and he watches as the caregiver puts another serving of pasta on his plate.

Caregiver 2: Look at, we have pasta with chicken. Remember, Maya, yesterday we had chicken.