An early-numeracy workbook from M. D. Gunasena's Wipe & Clean Practice Book Series, compiled in English to take young children through the numbers one to twenty-five.
The approach is repetition in several forms rather than a single drill. Each number is introduced, then practised as handwriting, and then counted out against pictures, so that the child meets the same figure as a shape to copy and as a quantity to match. The intention is the one the series name suggests: short, repeatable sessions that a parent or a preschool teacher can sit through with a child at a table.
The pages are printed on thick, glossy stock and the book is supplied with a whiteboard marker. Marks wipe off, which means every exercise can be attempted again from scratch — useful at the stage when a child is still forming figures unsteadily and benefits from trying the same stroke many times without running out of paper. It also makes the book usable with more than one child, or over a longer stretch of a child's early learning.
M. D. Gunasena & Co. is a long-established Colombo publisher and bookseller, with a substantial list of school and children's titles in both Sinhala and English. This one belongs squarely to that practical, classroom-adjacent end of the catalogue: inexpensive, hard-wearing and built around doing rather than reading.
Suited to pre-school and early primary-age children at home or in a nursery setting, and to families overseas looking for straightforward English-language counting practice from a Sri Lankan publisher.
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: English
- ISBN: 955-21-2399-3
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