can your 5 year old...

[genuinelyinterested]

can your 5 year old do the sum 96+96?

[nutcracker]

No

[charliecat]

no

[serenity]

not a chance.

[soapbox]

DD could have done yes!

They are taught the concept of near doubles in Y1 and this would be the near double of 100 = 200 less 4 less 4.

[kid]

I don't think my 6 year old can.

If I helped her a little bit (90+90 and 6+6) then she might be okay but she wouldn't know how to do it herself.

[fqueenzebra]

hahahahahhahahaaaaa... (to original question, I mean)

cor, I'd be over the moon if DS could do 6+6!!!

[sorrel]

i can't even do it

[Ellbell]

At the end of YrR? Definitely not.

[fqueenzebra]

lol, sorrel

[binkie]

yes but sadly that's His Idea Of Fun

can your 5 year old announce from the back of the car "three-quarters of an hour is one thirty-second of a whole day!" - ?

[fqueenzebra]

sounds better than endless variations on "are we there yet?", binkie....

[spidermama]

Nope.

[Lucycat]

Nope, me neither after half a bottle of wine

[genuinelyinterested]

dd was 5 in May. she did the sum 98+98. Then I asked her what 97+97 was and - instead of saying 194 she shrugged her shoulders and said "two less". 96+96 wasn't a problem either

[emmatmg]

He's 6 now but yes he could at 5

[genuinelyinterested]

ahh Binkie - yours and mine should get together. all our journeys are divided into minutes, fractions of hours etc. haven't got to 32nds though!

[binkie]

Cool. He would love someone to talk numbers with! (By the way, he was 6 in April, shortly after the car announcement, so time enough for your dd & 32nds yet.)

[sansouci]

makes me think of what dh calls a willy-waving contest

[genuinelyinterested]

I find watching her develop her interests absolutely fascinating. She seems to have a real grasp of numbers (the answer "two less", for example, was more interesting, to me, than if she had given the actual answer). and at the same time she's very creative - her favourite thing to draw is butterflies with symmetrical patterned wings. not convinced that maths and creativity are as far apart as we are led to believe

[hatstand]

sansouci - I so knew someone would say that - why do you think that a) I posted my q on the anonymous website rather than asking the parents at the school gate (can you imagine that, how to win friends ay) and b) I changed my name. I find it quite sad that someone can't discuss the totally fascinating development of a child's understanding without being accused of willy-waving. I find child development extremely fascinating and I won't apologise for find my own child's particularly so.

[binkie]

and presumably the (slightly despairing) tone of my post was completely missed? Anyway, hatstand, nice to know it's you.

[hatstand]

sorry Binkie - I'm lost - geniune question - what were you despairing at?

[binkie]

ds's limited ideas of fun!
absolutely not at you, or your dd

[hunkermunker]

Hatstand, I'm fascinated by this too! DS is only 15 months old, but tonight we discovered that he is very interested in the sound of numbers - DH was counting to him softly to calm him down before bed (first time we'd tried it - usually he's trying to get onto the windowsill, but tonight he sat and listened intently!). Then I came upstairs to give him his last feed, DH told me what he'd done and I started counting - DS looked at me with wide eyes and then back to DH, then grinned broadly. He likes the sound of numbers

Will have to wait a while to see if he can manipulate them as easily as your DD though! Well done her!

And Binkie...I couldn't have worked that out! I'm a words girl, myself - can count in many languages, but when it comes to doing things with numbers - shockingly poor!

[hatstand]

phew. I must be a right saddo - I'm the one who did artsy social sciency stuff, whereas dh has got maths coming out of every orifice. Yet I'm the one who really enjoys talking maths with her . although dh did teach her to say icosahedron (sp?) when she was about 2