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Emily loves math

Today Emily and I (Patti) were driving home from soccer.

"Mom? How many hours in the day?" Emily asks.

"24", I tell her.

"So, if I want to know how much minutes are in the day I do 24 times 60?", she wondered.

"yes" I replied, thinking... holy cow!!

Later at dinner I told her to tell that to David.

David tries to stump her, "So how many seconds in an hour?"

Emily responds, "Well, if there are 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour 60 times 60 is your answer."

She can't do the multiplication, but she knows how to set up the problem. Amazing.

Posted by Patti on April 27, 2008 06:02 PM |

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Sounds like some one else I know----next week she will do the math.......

Posted by: Mom | April 27, 2008 08:33 PM

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