4yo bought this home from preschool - what does it mean?!

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I’m probably being dim, but my 4yo bought this praise slip home from preschool and I have no idea what he’s achieved… it says he can identify quantities up to 5 but I don’t understand the context? The word confusing me is what looks like “subrtise”. Thank you!

*brought
Oh heck, it’s been a long day!

Subitise - it means knowing how many of something there are without having to count them - like recognising the pattern of spots on a dice! It's reception level work - so well done him!!!

Subitizing.

Subitising is when you are able to look at a group of objects and realise how many there are without counting.

I have no idea of the word, but the explanation tells you what it means.

Your child can look at groupings of items, and identify how many there are without counting.

So if there are 3 balls, they can look and say "3", without pointing and counting "1, 2, 3!"

I had absolutely no idea either 🤣 I'm 40

The wording explained what it meant?

Ooh I've learned a new word, thanks!

It explains what it means underneath 🤣

Every day's a school day. I'd never heard the word before either!

Thank you everyone for the helpful comments. I know the wording explained it but I couldn’t picture what that meant, IYKWIM. I thought it meant “how many fingers am I holding up?”, that kind of thing.

It’s interesting to read about, I didn’t even know this was something they were doing with them at pre-school so it’s been helpful knowing what the word I was getting wrong meant.

When young children learn to count, they just match numbers with items. So if they count one, two, three balls, then you take the first two away and ask how many are left, they will say "three" because the ball they called three is still left.

Your son has learned that numbers are measures, not just names. It's quite a bit mathematical milestone.

Google?

My daughter once got Star of the Week at the age of 5 for “being reciprocal”. Try explaining that to a small child!
I only recently heard of the word “subitise” and that’s only because I’ve been working with a Y3 class a lot 😂

Oh is that your new word for the day Benjispruce? Well done!