Problem with Math
I thought I’d encountered a “teachable moment” with my second grader last week. He mentioned that a friend of his had said that their family is running low on money.
My son loves math, and he also loves thinking about business and making money–therefore, we often talk about math in terms of numbers, and he’s always asking to learn more about fractions and decimals because he feels if he can conquer those, he can conquer anything. But I I thought the point he brought up about his friend’s family would be a great chance to talk about money in terms of life rather than math–by explaining, for example, that no matter how much money we have, we’ll still have problems unless we learn how to spend it right.
So I said, “See, the problem with money is that…”
And Deep Thinker completed my thought like a true second grader, “…it involves decimals?”
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