After birth, babies already have the ability to learn, and smart babies have super strong learning abilities that exceed your imagination. Many parents start actively training their babies' various abilities after their children are born, hoping that their babies can grow better. Many parents pay special attention to training in quantity, so how old can babies understand quantity?
How old can a baby understand quantities
Generally, babies can be taught to recognize numbers from around 2 years old, and from around 2 and a half years old, they can recognize numbers from 1 to 10. It is better to start teaching numbers to babies early, and they can start learning to read when they enter kindergarten. Encouraging babies to recognize numbers through entertainment is the best way. Actually, babies already have a preliminary concept of numbers as early as six months old.
The Five Best Periods for Baby's Intellectual Development
1. Critical period 1: 0-1 years old, critical period for voice recognition
After one week of birth, a baby can recognize the voice of the mother feeding them, and after four weeks, they have the ability to distinguish different sounds.
2. Critical period 2: 0-2 years old, critical period for motor development
Training method:
① Starting from the full moon, push the baby's feet with your hands and train him to crawl.
② When the baby is 3 months old, hang some toys above his crib to allow his hands to grasp and exercise his hand eye coordination function.
③ Create more opportunities for babies to crawl when they are 6-7 months old, such as placing them prone, placing one or two toys in front of them to attract them to crawl forward, and trying to grab the toys to promote their motor development.
3. Critical period 3:1-3 years old, critical period for oral development
4. Critical period 4: 2-4 years old, the critical period for the development of counting ability
Training method:
① Take advantage of various opportunities in daily life to frequently count for your baby, such as when giving them candy or going up and down stairs.
② Using different objects such as fingers and building blocks, count with your baby to increase their intuitive understanding of numbers.
③ Using vivid images, teach babies to recognize numerical symbols, such as "1 is like chopsticks, 2 is like a duck, 3 is like ears", etc.
④ Design some fun games for babies to play, such as asking them to find numbers from digital cards.
⑤ Using specific examples to teach babies addition and subtraction, props such as apples and building blocks can be used to demonstrate.
⑥ Provide sufficient physical materials for babies to do it themselves and find connections between numbers.
5. Critical period 5: 1-3 years old, a critical period for the development of musical abilities
Training method:
① Choose songs, world-renowned songs, fairy tale music, etc. that are suitable for babies, enjoy them together, explain them, or ask them questions to stimulate their imagination.
② Choose songs that are suitable for the baby's age characteristics and teach them to sing.
This article provides a detailed introduction to how old babies can understand quantity. It can be seen from the introduction that babies already have the concept of quantity at six months old, but their ability to understand quantity will not improve significantly until they are two years old. As a mother who wants her baby to understand quantity as soon as possible, it is best for you to take timely measures to train your baby's quantity cognition.
