Math Tidbits

Trevor just came up to me very excitedly and said, "Mommy! I just figured out that two 3's is 6 and three 2's is 6 too! Isn't that crazy!"  Awesome.  I never taught him that. 

One of his favorite things to do at dinner is to quiz Sean and I or himself.  He'll give himself the easy questions and give us the "hard" ones, trying to stump us. 

For himself, "Daddy, did you know that 4 plus 3 is 7?"

For Sean or myself, "Daddy/Mommy, what's 3...plus one hundred and two?"  It's so cute to hear him say, "Wow! How did you do that so fast?" 

We recently read a library book about Fibonacci and Trevor loved it.  I had never learned about the Fibonacci sequence, so it was fun for me, too.  It was really fascinating to learn that everyone thought Fibonacci was a blockhead because of his love of numbers, and he never actually published anything or showed anyone his work.  People can be so ridiculous being afraid of other people's differences!  I hope I can teach my kids to not reject someone right away just based on the fact that they do things differently from them or like different things.  How egocentric is that? 

I don't know if I'm doing such a great job, though.  Conrad told a man in the library elevator last week, "You talk funny."  Ugh.