3V1179.01 Counting Plates with numbers in various ranges (4/15/81)

Peggy loves to help empty the dishwasher. After stacking the small plates on the shelves, she began counting: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, etc…18… She continued from stack to stack, using ‘big’ numbers as well, “eighty, ninety, tendy” repeating them as well as smaller numbers and in no obvious order. After getting up, she announced to the world, “I counted all the plates.” — as she had done in her terms by assigning a number name to each item (mauger the lack of order and repetition of tokens).
What does Peggy have to learn about number?
1. use each number name once only.
2. use the number names in a fixed order.
Let’s observe closely how she picks up these ideas — not pushing them on her… but focusing on her natural learning of them, probing some in videotape experiments but not too much otherwheres.

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