So we're working on homework with Big Belle. It's math. So far, I'm still okay. I think I'll be able to handle working with her on this for a couple of more years before I'm maxed out. And, seeing as I used to teach the curriculum she's doing this year, I have a lot of strategies I can help her with. Usually, she needs very little help, but money has not come too easy so far. So...we're talking about it at the dinner table, which all came about as she asked why the Tooth Fairy gives her friend $5 per tooth, and she only got $1. Hm. We were stumped. Chris brilliantly suggested it was because her friend had 2 brothers and was the only girl so that's why the Tooth Fairy gave her $5. An excuse like that only works because she's 6. We'll have to work on something better, but I was impressed with his quick thinking.
But back to math. We're discussing how many quarters in a dollar, check she knew that. How many dimes in a dollar, she quickly counted by tens and figured that out. How many nickels -- yup, this girl was on a roll! And pennies next -- piece of cake! I was impressed. But time to squash that pride she was feeling...because there's nothing like a mom knocking your tooth out one day and making you think extra hard the next. So I said, okay, how many pennies in (drumroll please) $2.00?????????
Oh she thought. She stumbled. She tried. But each time she kept sticking with 100. So I stepped in. Time for me to impress the family with my smarts. Time to show this daughter who has the brains at the table.
"Well, if you have 100 pennies in ONE dollar..." I perhaps said a might too smuggly...
"THEN YOU HAVE 100 PENNIES IN THE OTHER DOLLAR too!" Big Belle responded.
And darn it, if she wasn't right.
And if you look carefully, you will find my pride still laying under the table with the crumbs, waiting to be swept away. Fortunately for me, it will probably lay there for a few days. Maybe I can try to gather it up again for round two.
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