A child being able to count—saying “1, 2, 3”—doesn’t necessarily mean they understand what they’re doing. For younger children, counting is at first just a pattern they are following, and sometimes they get that pattern wrong (younger kids will often say “twenty-eight, twenty-nine, twenty-ten.”). But to actually understand numbers is to understand that they represent concrete things in the world. But how do you know if a child understands it in that way? Bridging this gap bet