Children are exploring mathematical concepts and relationships every day. Young infants are beginning to learn number concepts and the concept of less and more. Older infants and toddlers begin to develop number concepts of when caregivers sing songs and involve activites with numbers will get toddlers to explore numbers in many ways. Children also explore with patterns and relationships which include objects, colors, shapes, numbers, or events. Young infants may focus on specific colors of someone's clothing and feel different textures. Mobile infants will play with nesting cups and blocks and realize the difference between them. Toddlers can repeat patterns and repeat phrases from books. Children begin to recongnize similiar shapes and body positions in space which is the concept of geometry and spatial relationships. Infants and toddlers feels shapes of everyday objects and play with different sized objects. Infants and toddlers also start to organize information and make comparisons with the concept of sorting and classifying. Children begin this concept very young by beginning to distinguish between familiar and unfamiliar adults. Toddlers place different shapes next to each other and can notice differences between the two.
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