What do you know before you know how to count?

Question

Human babies (at least) learn to count. Before they can do that, their little brains have some capabilities that allow them to learn to count. What are those pre-counting capabilities? [Really]

Answer 1

One-to-one relation.
My son when he was still very small:
here sits mommy, here sits daddy, here sits Julie.
That was his way to say 'three persons'.

Answer 2

The human has inborn abilities. The capacity to count is present in animal reign. For example the apes(like chimps, gorillas), some species of birds( parrots), and other animals are able to distinguish between small amounts. This is due to evolutionary progress. For example a chimp will survive more if he has to choose fast between a bunch of 3 bananas or a bunch of 4 bananas. Anyhow it is proved that animals can distinguish more accurately it the number of items is small. Bigger the number than more confusion. For example they don't distinguish between 69 items and 70 items.
The similar things happen with babies. They have this inborn capacity and also the brain potential to learn form experiences. In few years their capacity are more complex than any other animal. There have been experiments with babies like: they were tested if they understand where an object disappears, to count attributes( how many colors), or this hard one: only one hat has a ball inside and the hats are moved around, where is the ball?

Some kids learn to add, substract by themselves by using the number of their fingers. They become pretty knowledgeable before first school years.

Answer 3

The month wise behaviors are as follows.
1. Prolonged looking at a ring.
2. Eyes follow a moving pencil.
3. Aware of a strange situation.
4. Inspects hand. And Turns toward a sound.
5. Picks up a cube
6. Approaches image in mirror.
7. Smiles at image.
8. Cooperates in simple games
9. Shows interests in objects
10. Attempts to imitate scribble.
11. Holds a crayon adaptively.
12. Holds a cup to drink.
14 Builds a ‘tower’ of two cubes.
16. Throws a ball.
18. Imitates pencil stroke.
20 Turns a door knob.
22 Names three objects.
24 Names five objects
25 Builds a tower of eight cubes.
28 Understands three prepositions.
34. Knows five prepositions.

Answer 4

people find this hard to believe, but my daughter, just over a month old has learned to turn on the music aquarium we have in her crib...wife and i heard the gurgling music from the other room, and figured it was an accident, however, it kept happening..so, we got our camera and watched as the timer ran out and the music waned, her little hand searched the side of the crib and moved around until she happened to push the music button, by chance, i'm sure...however, as soon as the music came back on, she put her arm to rest...so, if nothing else, she did know that she could control that music somehow..and this continued, nightly, daily, it so soothed her...

Answer 5

where are the fingers