
Develops interest in measurement, for example pouring into, and emptying, a cup.Starts to understand words that describe measurements, for example faster, slower.Develops an understanding that numbers represent quantity - for example when you hold up two fingers.Learns to recite the numbers 1-10, though they may skip some numbers.Toddlers begin to recognize and name numbers.Toddlers: Math skills learned at 1-2 years old

Starts to understand words that describe quantities, for example bigger, smaller, more.Around nine months babies can start to tell the difference between groups of items that have different quantities, for example one group has 5 toys and one group has 10.Starts to understand relative size - for example you are bigger than they are.Develops an understanding of cause and effect (this is one reason babies like to throw food - they throw, you pick it up - cause & effect).Begins classifying objects, for example, toys that have sound and toys that don’t.They begin to predict things and might be surprised if something that typically happens twice happens three times.

