When the child learns this language it has to learn the series of “ || “numerals” || ” “a”, “b”, “c”, … by heart. – And it has to learn their use. Will an ostensive teaching of words come || enter into this ¤ instruction also? – Well, someone || one will point at slabs, for instance, and count: “a, b, c slabs”. A greater similarity with the ostensive teaching in example (3) would appear in the ostensive teaching of numerals when || There would be a greater similarity between the ostensive teaching in (4) and the ostensive teaching of numerals if these are not used for counting but rather to indicate || refer to groups of objects that can be grasped with || by the eye. This is the || In this way children learn the use of the first five or six cardinal numbers || numerals. Are “there” and “this” taught || Do we teach “there” and “this” ostensively? – Think of || Imagine how you || one might teach their use. You point to places and things; – but here || in this case the pointing occurs in the use of the words as well || also, and not simply in the learning || teaching of it || the use. –