Have you heard others speak about number sense, especially in dealing with math? What exactly does it mean?
Number sense is a skill set that helps people work with numbers. However, there are those that struggle with basic understanding of number sense. Perhaps your child is one of them. Skills such as number comparison and understanding number ordering fall into having number sense.
The challenge with number sense is that people who struggle with it also struggle with basic math operations.
They may have trouble with addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, or distance and time. What can you do to help if your child is struggling? This article by Understood.org has great insight in how to assist your child in creating a greater number sense.