The truth is, my daughter rocks and all of y'all should know about this. Camille has addition and subtraction down cold with sums up to ten. I figured that I'd shown her the concept and it was up to some highly-paid teacher to get her past that number ten barrier.
But then one day, I'm perusing her Hello Kitty notebook and see that she's computed 8+7=15. How in the world did she figure that one out by herself? I go ask her and she says (with a little grin) she counted it on her fingers. My daughter is no freak, she only has ten fingers, but I checked that anyway just to be sure. After they added up, she scurried off to her craft table and brought back a sheet with her work:
She had drawn hands with more fingers to help her count. That rocks! If Mohammed can't go to the mountain, bring the mountain to Mohammed.
4 comments:
It was Mohammed who went to the mountain!
umm yeah. the point was that she moved the impossible (the fact that she only has ten fingers) much as moving a mountain would have been impossible.
Who needs biblical accuracy (notice it's not in quotes) when you're looking for a catchy line. Sheesh.
Oh...wait. I said moses when i should have said mohammed. I realized this at 4AM while feeding anr old-testament named kid. Lack of sleep is the issue here.
Awesome.
Although your daughter is going to need a lot more fingers to do vector calculus.
When my daughter was about 5 years old, she could spell just as fast backwards as forwards. I think she just saw the words as pictures in her mind. Left-to-right or right-to-left made no difference to her.
Either that, or she has some genetic disposition to weirdness.
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