Early childhood and special education teacher Heather Wyjack works Tuesday with Finn Huinker on a “counting collections” activity during a preschool class at Lakeview Elementary School in Solon.

What would we do without our routines? Routines can be personal, like a morning cup of coffee or reading a bedtime story to your child. Routines can provide structure and help get tasks accomplished.

As we’ve seen in the last lesson, the main difference between the two existing counting rules_Area Counting and Territory Counting,_is what is counted. While the latter takes into account the number ...