A film of families enjoying counting with young children in everyday situations, including a range of languages.
(A not for profit film made by Rose Griffiths at the University of Leicester with SureStart Leicester.)
Read the blog about this film.
Getting Children Counting Rose Griffiths, University of Leicester 2026
PART ONE: Children learn about counting by listening, watching and doing, from a very young age.
PART TWO: Give children lots of chances to count things.
PART THREE: Make time to enjoy using numbers together.
(Section titles are narrated in English, Turkish, Bengali, Somali and French)
Getting Children Counting sections.
Article:
Griffiths, R. (2006). Young children counting at home in Hewitt, D. Proceedings of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics. 26(3) November 2006.
