04/27/06: Adding with 8’s
Today during the drop off, Byron announced that he is tired to adding with 9’s. I promptly asked him ‘oh, yeah, what’s the trick with adding 9’s?”
“Borrow 1, make ten and add ‘teen’.’ (Not bad for a 4-yr old, I thought).
“Cool! Do you want to know what to do with adding 8?”
“ Then, we are done?” (Boy, he really didn’t want math today).
“Yep.” (I’m a firm believer that there is absolutely no point in dragging a non-thirsty horse to the riverbank!)
“All do you with adding 8 is ‘Borrow 2, make ten and add ‘teen’.”
“that’s it?” (Kids are always amazed that math can be so simple!)
“That’s it with 8. wanna do some tomorrow?”
“of course!” We then moved onto who is doing what at his pre-k grade at the Montessori Schoolhouse.
Happy Zen Math!!
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