The first part of this post is going to sound bizarre, but it’s pertinent, so stick with me!
Hannah and Naomi take vitamins every day: two multivitamins and two calciums. Naomi generally doles them out. This morning, we were at the last 2 calcium vitamins, so each girl only got one. Naomi asked that hers be broken in half, though, so that she could have the feeling of having two. No problem.
Hannah took the bottle and perused the outside of it for a while, before suddenly announcing, while I was thinking of something else entirely, “Well, that just shows that you can’t count by fours to 90.”
Me: You’re right. You can’t. Did you try? [Counting by various numbers to 100 or another number is a regular feature of her math lessons, so I thought she might have taken up a new challenge: to 90 by fours!]
Hannah: No, Mama, there are 90 vitamins in this bottle, but we’re left with only two at the end, not four. So you can’t count to 90 by fours.
Me: That’s very true.
I have a feeling that word problems are not going to pose too many problems for this one. She makes up her own at breakfast. Maybe one day she’ll be the one writing them: “If you have a bottle of 90 vitamins, and two children eat two a day,…”
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