Excerpt from The Natural Number Primer IT is the purpose of this book to present the elementary ideas of number in the simplest form and language possible. It is a book for the use of the child in his first year in school, supplementing the work of the teacher. The first step in the learning of number consists in giving to a group of objects a number-name by counting. Counting has little value except that it makes possible the definite comparison of groups of Objects or of units of measure. The ordinary child, on entering school, is able to make an indefinite comparison of groups of objects and also, to some extent, to count. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.