Math Facts

The girls recently got a gumball machine which takes any type of coin, so of course we put pennies into it.

Today in the car Rachael (age 6) announced, "If I found a dime, I would trade it into Mom and Dad for ten pennies, because that would be a fair trade, and then I could get ten gumballs! And if Rebecca and I each found a dime, we could trade them in and get twenty gumballs!"

A few seconds later she started informing me, "Five times four is twenty. And five times two is ten. And five times three is fifteen."

A week or two she had said to me, "Two plus three is the same thing as four plus one, and that's five."

It's always nice to hear that they so confidently know and understand things that I don't even think I ever taught them!