"Daddy?"
"Yes, Jilly?"
"How old will you be on your birthday?"
"Fifty-four, honey"
"Oh. How old will you be in ten years?"
"How old do you think?"
"I don't know."
"Jilly, see if you can figure it out."
"Come on, give me a hint."
"OK, what is fifty-four plus ten?"
"Thirty-seven?"
November 07, 2009
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We should let Jilly do all our birthday math...
Oh yeah... that works for me too!
I'm really liking the way Jilly adds birthdays. She can figure mine all the time!
I could live with that.
oh jilly, how awesome!! :)
That is a nice way to figure out how old we are!
Somehow, I think THAT may be how I try to figure out how old I am!!!!
That's math I can appreciate!
Oh, and just in case your birthday is coming up (or just past): Happy birthday!
Grace - thank you - I agree - it was so funny / unfunny (to me) when Jilly asked for a hint when I asked her what fifty-four plus ten was. I sort of turned the order of our conversation around for this posting. . . and we were really talking about sponge-bob being ten this year. (As is Jilly). . . Math just escapes us.
Dawn - you just don't want Jilly making change for you or cashing a check at the bank.
Char - When Jilly was younger she did not understand numbers or time at all - if we said something was going to take 30 minutes - she would howl - so we invented 'jilly minutes.' 30 minutes became six jilly minutes and every 5 minutes one 'jilly minute' would disappear off the clock. . . it worked wonders.
Jim - I do live with it. I wish that I could set up an on-line math lesson so that everyone had a chance to work on equivalent fractions with Jilly. Sometimes I think it would be more productive to prove that one-sixth is not, no way, the same as two-twelfths. . . never was, never will be.
Willow - I'm just happy she didn't say five thousand four hundred ten as big numbers don't scare her. Some days it seems perfectly reasonable that 54+10 = 5,410. . .
Charity - There are only two things that make me feel my age. . . one is when I get a haircut and see all that grey hair on the floor. . . the other is when I try to read anything with type that is meant for young people. . . 8 point type is almost age discrimination.
Erik - Thank you - I know her teacher doesn't think of it as math but I do - it's kind of math for the unreal world where it's possible to have a birthday and be 17 years younger all in the same moment.
Jennifer - well thank you very much. My birthday was on Nov 20. I was fifty-four years old going on thirty-seven.
Thank you everyone for all your comments. You're so very kind.
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