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robbrown451 on Dec 26, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Made this with my daughter to help kids a...

Wait I'm confused. You are teaching them to count the first item as "zero"? So if there are 3 apples, you have them say "zero, one, two"?

(FYI, I wasn't defending the zero on the right decision, I would prefer zero on the left)

hanniabu on Dec 27, 2019 [–]

> So if there are 3 apples, you have them say "zero, one, two"?

Well yes, except they'd count to three still because they're starting on 0 and increase that with each apple.

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