Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Patterns

Yesterday after his bath, James was asking, "What's 7 + 1?  What's 7 +2?  What's 7 + 3?"  After answering each of those, when he got to "What's 7 + 4?" I said, "What do you think?"  And he got it right, continuing on with 7 +5, 7 + 6, and so on up to 7 + 9.  So, he'd figured out that if he added one to the number he was adding each time, he just had to add one to the answer each time.  I was impressed!  I'm no expert, but that seemed like pretty sophisticated math skills for a three and a half year old.


2 comments:

Ann said...

That is very impressive!!! What was that answer to 7+9?

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Yvonne said...

Well, I am (a little bit of) an expert in education, and that is pretty impressive!