When I started kindergarten, I believed that 100 came directly after 29. Because 29 was the highest number I could count to. I just believed that that was the highest number there was. All the other numbers weren't really numbers, just adjectives, like if you had 36 bananas, 36 was just something that described them, not the quantity.
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- The highest of all numbers was "a finnety."— Becky
- when i was in kindergarten i used to think that 100 was the highest someone could count!— Jessica
- I used to believe that numbers had gender, that the odd numbers were boys and even numbers were girls. — Evelyn
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- I used to believe there was a limit on the numbers you could count — Carmen
- I used to believe that after the number "ten" came the numbers "tendy-one, tendy-two..." etc.Anon