At what age could your child count to 100?

[Anonymous]

I don't think I have ever heard my four-year-old actually count to 100. She gets bored easily. She definitely knew the pattern by the time she turned four--was skip counting 2,5, and 10 up to 100 at 3.5.

Once she made me count to 100 in the car and I obliged. I swear my voice gave out by the end. I guess I am not a talker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's easier to do in Chinese. If you know 1 to 10 in Chinese, you can do 100.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Counting to 10 before knowing the meaning of counting is what I call a "toddler party trick". My first two were counting in english, greek, spanish, doing the alphabet really early. Not because they were really super duper smart or gifted but because I taught them. Kids 3 and 4 are just as smart but do not have the extensive party trick list of the others. Simple as that.

Totally agree. I'm the PP who posted 5 after two people posted 3. No shame here. Just not what we spent our learning/ memorization time on.

Agree, my child can count to 20 in three languages. Who cares.

At 3 she now understands numbers because she can do addition and subtraction. That to me is a bigger deal then counting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Counting to 10 before knowing the meaning of counting is what I call a "toddler party trick". My first two were counting in english, greek, spanish, doing the alphabet really early. Not because they were really super duper smart or gifted but because I taught them. Kids 3 and 4 are just as smart but do not have the extensive party trick list of the others. Simple as that.

Totally agree. I'm the PP who posted 5 after two people posted 3. No shame here. Just not what we spent our learning/ memorization time on.

I like you both. My daughter will be 3 next month and has a hard time with the teens, still. I always found numbers the hardest part about learning foreign languages myself (but then again, I never studied Chinese).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:crap, my kid just turned 5 and can't count to 100....

If it matters, my son's kindergarten teacher wants the kids tone able to count up to 70 by the end of kindergarten. I wouldn't worry.

[Anonymous]

First DS - rote counting somewhere around 3, but the one to one correspondence wasn't there yet (I think it that was only 1-20 or so).

Second DS is almost 4 and can't rote count past 20 yet. Not sure what his one to one correspondence is, its either 1 to 10 or 1 to 15.

Its fine either way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:crap, my kid just turned 5 and can't count to 100....

If it matters, my son's kindergarten teacher wants the kids tone able to count up to 70 by the end of kindergarten. I wouldn't worry.

I figured this was the case. DS doesn't go to kindergarten till next year so he will be good to go by then. None of my 3 children ever did ABCs or 123s early. I'm not really convinced it matters.

[Anonymous]

Between 5 and 6. I think DD could do it shortly after 5, DS is almost 5 1/2 and has almost got it but not quite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Counting to 10 before knowing the meaning of counting is what I call a "toddler party trick". My first two were counting in english, greek, spanish, doing the alphabet really early. Not because they were really super duper smart or gifted but because I taught them. Kids 3 and 4 are just as smart but do not have the extensive party trick list of the others. Simple as that.

Agree. DC is 3 and counts to 100. She also speaks Greek (we are Greek) and I would consider the Spanish and Arabic to be a parlor trick. She can count to 100 but has no concept of greater or lesser numbers. She's learning math but its all memory, nothing more at this point.

[Anonymous]

5 too!

[Anonymous]

Age 4, and now at 4.5 he can count to 100 in three languages (Spanish, English and French). He just likes numbers and shows a real interest. But I don´t think it matters in the long run.

[Anonymous]

between 5 and 6. They do this in my son's K class. He mastered it slightly after 5.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:crap, my kid just turned 5 and can't count to 100....

Who cares. I et he has tons of other skills and is perfectly capable,of learning. FWIW, my above grade level child couldn't do,it until he was seven.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:6 months he is in the GT program at school

lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:crap, my kid just turned 5 and can't count to 100....

Who cares. I et he has tons of other skills and is perfectly capable,of learning. FWIW, my above grade level child couldn't do,it until he was seven.

Hahaha....he is. I was only kidding about being concerned. He is just fine. For what it's worth, he can tell you which number is greater or lesser, but just doesn't know 1-100 all in a row. A lot of his friends can count to 100 but can't tell you which number is bigger. I don't really get it.