Interesting article on early learning in 4-year-olds. I've always thought they were craftier than we gave them credit for...
Here's some of the relevant bits:
Many 4-year-olds cannot count up to their own age when they arrive at preschool...
...three months into the school year, counting up to seven and higher, even doing some elementary addition and subtraction. At recess, one boy, Joshua, used a pointer to illustrate a math concept known as cardinality, by completing place settings on a whiteboard...
...By preschool, the brain can handle larger numbers and is struggling to link three crucial concepts: physical quantities (seven marbles, seven inches) with abstract digit symbols (“7”), with the corresponding number words (“seven”).
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