Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 75.  Today we are taking a look at how Counting is a Substitute for Sense Making.

“To encourage counting can actually interfere with the construction of number in that it is a rote process that may be devoid of any mathematical meaning.”

When I read that sentence on page 15 of the book Coming to Know Number by Wheatley & Reynolds, my first instinct was to slam the book shut.  My shoulders immediately clenched up and I thought ‘How in the world can they say that!?!?  Counting and our number system is the basis for all mathematical ideas.’

In today’s episode I talk about what the book continues on to say and how my shoulders started to relax.  Get all the details from today’s episode over at buildmathminds.com/75