Math

I have to explain to some people that we don't do formal math because it just comes up in normal life and we are talknig about it all the time. We had quite a few examples today, so I thought I would take a moment to record them. Thomas is playing checkers (by himself) and just said to me, "Three fours is twelve, because I put my checkers in stacks of four and there were three stacks." Earlier he was going to heat up his hot dog and his dad told him to just use the 13 seconds left on the microwave. He started it and then stopped it at three seconds and said, "I only wanted it to go for 10 seconds." Yesterday out of nowhere he told us 15 and 10 is 25 (I'm not even sure what he was figuring out there). Math really is an everday thing. Whenever he asks us to figure out some sort of math problem for him, we ask him to do it and he can usually come up with it. If he can't we explain different ways he could come up with it and take the teaching moments as they come up.

At the beginning of the year I purchased an online math program (don't worry it was cheap) that he seemed to like, but he was soon bored. He hated doing it and really I didn't see any reason to have him do it, when he could learn it in the context of life.

I wanted to add this one. I went to the doctor today and I lost 2 pounds. Thomas asked what I weighed before and I told him 198, he told me that that means I weigh 196 now. (I know that sounds like a lot, but I'm 9 months pregnant.)