Enoch loves to do math. At Darley he was a regular winner of the "Math Magician" award. This year first grade has not even begun to challenge him in math. Frequently we augment his homework with some of Hilde's. Yesterday Enoch came home super excited.
E: "Mom, I HAVE to tell you what I did to Ms. Choi."
Me: "I can't wait to hear, what happened?"
E: "We were doing math and I showed Ms. Choi my number bonds to a thousand and she said, SERIOUSLY Enoch, SERIOUSLY??? And I got to stop right there and not do any more problems."
He brought the paper home last night and here is what he had done:
Equivalent equations - solve these equations:
3+4 = 8-1
The answer is 7 for both
After you do a series of these, you get to make up 10 of your own. After doing two small ones, here is what Enoch did purely in his head for number 3 (which ended up being the last one he had to do):
113 + 887 = 225 + 775
The answer is 1000 for both
I love this kid!
3 comments:
Oh and he can't wait until he gets to do more of these and do a set for 10,000.
Wow! How cool is it that he enjoys math?! He must have really cool parents who have shown him that math can be fun :) Congrats to Enoch, and to you!
Amazing!!!
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