Answer to Question #124010 in Math for Felicia Ngubandze

Question

Mothers and pre-school teachers often boasted that a four-year old child could already
read numbers. Is this an ideal situation?

Answer 1

4-year-old child should be able to count 10 or more objects. That's a little different from just reciting numbers. Correlating a number with an object to actually count it requires a stronger grasp of basic math skills.

So, this skill is not an ideal but usual situation of the development level of such child.