To be worried by how bad at maths / numeracy dd is?

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My dd is nearly 3 - although was just over two months prem but apparently that shouldn’t matter now - and she just has no clue. None.
She can barely count to 10. If I ask her ‘how many’ she just looks vacantly at me. She will independently say ‘I’ve got two’ or ‘I’ve got three’ but she can’t touch count to save her life.
My friend’s daughter the same age can touch count to 10 and also recognise that if the has 5 or something and uses 2 she will have 3. My son was also very good at maths by 3.
Dd can’t recognise any numbers apart from 1 and 3 - although she’s got quite a lot of letters and has picked those up from alphablocks on her own - but numbers she has absolutely no idea. She’s got shapes, she knows how to share in half and quarters by breaking up a biscuit for example but actual numbers and counting she is just vacant.
I’ve tried number songs and playing games etc and still no.
She starts preschool in January and Im worried she will be miles behind already.

Does anyone have any good games that might help her? Has anyone had similar with their child and they’ve turned out to be ok at numeracy when they go to school?

Oh give over.

Are you serious?

I stopped reading after the first sentence.

She is two. Let her enjoy being two!

Haha this is a joke seriously?

What on earth

She sounds normal. 2 year olds don't need to know how to count yet. I don't think my daughter could count to 10 at that age and she is now 4 and can do sums and recognises numbers to 100.

The best advise is not to compare yourselves with others and their children.

She is perfectly normal.
I teach reception, many of the children start the year unable to count to ten.

Give her a break.

Look, your child is not yet even 3. She is tiny and it's way too early to be worrying about stuff like this. All children develop at different rates, and it doesn't help to start comparing.

Just keep doing what you're doing - adding songs, count stuff in a playful way - but don't worry about it, as there is a danger that she'll pick up on your anxiety.

She's 2. She really doesn't need to know how to do this stuff yet.

My DD is same. Nearly 3 and can count to 4, then skips straight to 7. She doesn't know her numbers in order. Her cousin (1 month older) can count 1 to 20.

That was supposed to say sing songs, not adding songs.

She’s two!!!! Give it a rest! She won’t be expected to actually have a proper sense of numbers and counting until she’s actually in school and they teach her.

Just let her be a kid. She doesn’t need to be able to count, and who cares if some other kids can? She is her own person, there’s no point in comparing.

It's still early to worry too much, but the best thing I've found for children who struggle with number (teacher) is Numicon. It's not cheap, but it's a great way of giving children a different visual representation of number. Just letting them play with it for a starting point (you can get boards and make pictures), and then learning which number each piece represents, and touch counting the holes (will make more sense when you see it!). I had a child who started Reception with no understanding of number, we used lots of multi sensory learning at school and parents backed this up with a Numicon kit at home. She left Reception at age related expectations.

Eh? My son says numbers all the time but at random..he is very cute with it but he definitely can't count...His nursery has no concerns about his development...Is it actually common for kids to count by 3??

She's 2 ffs!

W.T.A.F. Seriously she's two. We have a very good motto where I work - don't test me, tell me. Maybe you could focus on that?

I have zero idea if my dc (now 10 & 8 and doing marvellously) could count at 2. No one cares.

So is this a joke? Please say that you thought it would be hilarious to post this, pretending a 2 year old is not good enough.

Its not really my sense of humour so i dont get it, but good luck with the thread.

YANBU. She should really be doing advanced calculus at that age.

Give over and get a grip OP. She’s 2!

This is so funny OP. You’re honestly in a tizz over nothing.

FWIW, in year six at primary school I wasn’t meeting expectation in maths. I now have a PHD in it. Don’t panic with a 2 year old.

Actually this thread makes me feel really sad. Push push push from the start, expecting kids to be degree entry before school!!! Comparing to others. Please let children be children!!!

Has anyone had similar with their child and they’ve turned out to be ok at numeracy when they go to school?

And just to humour you I was very slow at grasping maths in primary school. I was using plastic cubes and number lines to count when I was in primary 4. FF to high school and I was in the top set and got an A in my higher. Really don’t worry.

I’m not joking
It’s just that she has NO IDEA. I mean she is average in other ways so I’m not sure why this is such an issue but it really is.
Also she is basically 3 not 2. I mean if she was just 2 it wouldn’t be a worry but she’s nearly a preschooler.

YABVU

she’s TWO! Practically a baby still. Stop pushing and let her be two! There’s plenty of time for school stuff when she actually starts school, which won’t be for almost 2 more years! Poor kid!

Get a grip, seriously 😐

Literally every other child I encounter her age can count. And touch count.
I know you say don’t compare but if you don’t compare ever then how do you work out if there’s a problem or not? I knew there were issues with my ds because I compare him to others his age and now he has an asd diagnosis.