Jeff was playing some "math games" with her at bedtime tonight. This involves him saying things like "If I have 5 fingers and add 3 more fingers, how many will I have in all?" She then uses her hands to act out the problem and then they repeat the math fact together-5 plus 3 equals 8.
She LOVES this. She's WAY into numbers lately and is always asking me how much this plus that makes. I'm happy to oblige her...we always prayed that our kids would be strong in math.
Ok, on to the genius bit. So Jeff says to her, " How much is 1 finger plus 2 fingers plus 1 more finger." And he proceeds to start to repeat it so she can act it out with her hands. But she just looks at him and says, "Four. It's four, Papa."
My mouth was on the floor. As a former teacher, I know that mental math skills usually come in sometime in the Primary grades, depending on the kid. But this was impressive, if I do say so myself.
Guess I'll go start filling out her MENSA application now...
1 comment:
Um, yeah, I'd say she's a genius! My 7yr old second grader is only just now starting to be able to do this (and I actually wonder how much of it may be just memorized)! Keep at her so she loves it and gets better and better! I pray that my girls are *good* with math, too, because I wasn't (until college) and it was a struggle to even want to do the work in high school.
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