So the other day, #2 was doing a math worksheet for fun (yeah, for fun! I wonder where he gets it)! He asked me, “Hey Daddy, what’s 6 minus 5?” I asked him,
“If you had six candies, and then I took five of them away, how many would you have left?”
“Six?”
“No, six is what you had in the beginning, before I took five away! Go get six coins from my coin cup”
…
“OK, so now you have six coins, and I take away one, two, three,…”
“Oh, it’s one!”
The next day, in the car after school, I hear #2 from the back,
“What’s 8 minus 6?”
“Why don’t you figure it out?”
A little time goes by, and then I hear him say,
“I need six more pencils.”
“Why, how many do you have?”
“Two.”
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“So if you had those six pencils, and then I took them back away again, how many would you have left?”
“Oh, so it’s two?”
Chuck thinks he has potential.
I guess there’s a difference between being able to figure out the answer, and being able to know you’ve figured out the answer!