Kindle Voyage of Numbers & Figures

Now my little one is growing, counting the language in numbers and figures, tracing tiny fingers for representation. His learning of 0-9 numbers along with companion figures, marches up to 50 with practising the pencils in hand. 

For him, each maths notebook cell is for one figure. I saw him writing 10, one in the first cell and zero gently in another, but he is not aware of the sequence. Sometimes, he writes zero in the first cell and put 5 in next, there he calls it as 50 ‘fifty’ proudly.

He is curious to see the change, the sequence break after 9, 19, 29 etc. He has to change for the next level after the ninth figure. And with practice, accepting the change at 10th cell- ready to forward for the next line. Learning that things halt temporarily and then shift with change, though they move toward the future or proceed. They stop temporarily, and the rhythm restarts after a moment.

The same change: he is learning to ask me ‘mama g kitne baj gye?’ Mother, what time is it? Curiosity about the change in time is from his last year's routine. He is listening his father saying, ‘Good morning 'little uth jao aath baj gye! school jana hai!' From there, he is curious to see the clock with needle on ‘8’ number through his squinty eyes. And he is asking in routine- kitne baj gye?' at noon, in the evening, at night before sleep, and in the morning when he wakes up. and replying every time, 'Atth baj gye?'

 Then, I showed him the clock and the second needle; moving with a tik-tik sound after a second and a sign of the time we humans measure. He saw the same numbers engraved in a circle as in the notebook, but in a single line. These are 1 to 12. He showed no reaction. 

I asked myself, why has he not asked for the next number? Where is one-three ‘13’?

Maybe he is not aware of the sequence or is not judgemental at this age. 

But his mother is waiting for this question to be answered.