When young children categorize items by number, they are beginning to perceive the relationships between them.

As they evolve in their ability to recognize and count the written numeral, they start to understand how they work together.

In this activity, your budding mathematician learned how to recognize and count pom poms within the scope of our Mexican theme.

Using pom poms and sombreros, students placed these items into six different sombreros, counting and naming the numbers while doing so.