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[28 Jun 2008|09:46am] |
Lately Owen has been obsessing a bit over numbers - counting to 20, doing small addition on his fingers, that sort of thing. In the past couple of weeks it's ramped up considerably - counting to 100, 200, and coming out with random bursts at dinner like, 'Nine plus nine is eighteen!' in between mouthfuls.
This morning he was begging us to give him math problems to solve. We started small (five plus three) and got progressively more difficult (ten plus ten) and eventually started throwing out some crazy stuff:
What's one hundred plus twenty? '120' - didn't miss a beat. Ok, fair enough...
What's one plus negative one? 'Zero' (Whaaaaa?)
What's three plus negative six? 'Negative three!'
Um, ok...what's one hundred plus negative one hundred and one? 'Negative one!'
BOGGLE.
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