Confirming Mike's Genes in Eliana
Thursday, September 12, 2013 at 10:26PM Eliana may look like a miniature version of her mama, but her delight in math surely must come from her daddy.
For fun this evening, she took a piece of paper and proceeded to do subtraction. And one multiplication problem, because she thinks she's in third grade.
She did all of that without asking me one question. The only thing wrong was in the upper left corner, the first problem. She had written "15 - 3 = 21." I was about to ask her which number was bigger, 15 or 21, because she understands that with a subtraction problem, the answer will be less than the number she started out with. But she read the number sentence to me: "15 - 3 = 12." Ha! So she had just mixed the digits up, and we sorted that out quickly, and she was happy as a clam.
A mathematics-loving little clam.
And I guess she loves her mom too.
It's because I have taught her everything I know about math. I do what I can to make the children happy.
Reader Comments (1)
That is so adorable! Nice to have math-loving genes in the family. We have zero of those, I believe. Math falls into the category of "character building" for us.