my daughter has just turned 2, and she has been able to count to 10 since she was about 20 months, she can now count to 15 but has not mastered her a.b.c's yet. When we are in the car she sees numbers on signs and calls them out. I was quite impressed with that, we also have a book with numbers 1-10 on each page. I can turn to any page and she knows the number.
I think every child is different, and they learn at different paces.
Caleb is similar in terms of obsession with numbers and currently counts to about 50 randomly but counts EVERYTHING he can see especially when reading books. He randomly points at numbers and says 'that's a two' but I suspect this is a fluke rather than reading and recognising the digit. He also counts backwards with blast off at the end.
Once they get 20, 30, 40, 50 and up are all followed by 1, 2, 3 etc they can just keep counting up. It is more of a concept than learning higher numbers.
His latest thing is pointing out triangles and other shapes and he likes me to draw a shape and name it so he can copy it, or just asks me to draw circles or whatever shape he is currently obsessed with.
Funny how they get fixated on one thing, like colours, until they get it.
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