A prospective observational multicenter study of balloon angioplasty for the treatment of native and recurrent coarctation of the aorta

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How Many Children Are Here Today?

Numbers Seemed To Become more real to my first graders last fall when we decided to use as counters the self-portraits we had made for open house. It was considered a privilege for one child to point to the portraits with a ruler while another tapped the actual person gently on the shoulder or head. This seemed to establish the one to one relationship so necessary in early rote counting. Each child watched intently to be sure he was tapped as his portrait was pointed out. T he port raits were so real to the children that taking daily attendance became a true number experience very quickly. The inevitable first grade chart story of “We have_______boys, We have girls, We have ________ children.” came easily because the children looked forward to counting their friends each day.</jats:p