The child has been taught to count. Now while he is telling you _how
many_ objects he is dealing with, teach him to tell _how much_ he is
dealing with.
In other words, have the child _measure and compare_ as well as count.
Ideas of larger and smaller, longer and shorter, and the like, should be
made important. The need at the outset, is to learn, in a simple way,
the basis of all arithmetic--the _comparison_ of _quantity_,--in as many
of its forms as possible.