can your 5 year old...

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

just re-read my post to sansouci. wee bit pompous. never post in haste etc etc

Ds is just 6, but I don't think he could.

But when I taught him th quick way of counting to one hundred 1,2, miss a few, 99,100. He thought for a minute a said "Mummy, it's actually 1,2 miss 96 99,100"

So maybe he could!

i doubt very much if my 6 year old could do that

Agree about maths and creativity being linked. Have a friend who's a mathematician and he's definitely very creative (also in the way he thinks about stuff, iykwim).

My dd is nowhere near as numerate at that (she's the same age as your dd, hatstand - 5 in May) but she does love numbers and, yes, we do pass time in the car with mental arithmetic... but so far mainly numbers up to 10 with a few forays into the teens! I am rubbish with numbers (add up on fingers!) so am glad that she seems to like them.

My nephew once claimed he could count to a million between our house and his (I was giving him a lift home). It was about 5 miles and iirc he got to about 700 and something! It was slightly tedious... almost as bad as 'are we nearly there yet?'!

oh dear your nephew and ds not unalike, then. We once had a ghastly 4yo tantrum (on a plane, aagh) because dh asked him a question which interrupted him counting to 100.

By the way, hatstand, I asked him the sum this morning. I always like to find out how he works - he said he did it "by adding the 90s, that's 180, then the next bit is more than 5, so double more than 10, so 12; so 192". So a very sure sense of the "building blocks" of numbers, which I think might be a useful approach for a child who struggles.

I meant to say, with your dd's drawing and numbers, there's a wonderful maths and geometry publishers called Tarquin - have you seen? They do times tables colouring books which are right up ds's street. There's even cut-out-and-stick icosahedra ...

He's in reception but i think he could yes, he has AS though and is rather fond of numbers

No.

OMG - I can't do that and I'm 37...

DS1 certainly couldn't have done it at 5 or early 6. Pretty sure he could do it now (nearly 7), but arithemetic is not his thing! Really impressed by your DCs!

mine can barely count to 30

has lovely handwriting though

Yes, but then he has aspergers and maths is one of his interests, that and books.

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No way could dd1, at 5, do this and I'm not risking asking now she's 7 because if she can't she will shout about it! I risked it and no shouting, she got it right the second time.

When I was doing my maths degree I had the option of having a BSc or a BA. The professors at warwick obviously felt maths was an art.

Poor dd1 is an artist and she's in a family of scientific types I hope the professors are right for her sake!

Undoubtedly not. In fact I asked ds what 96+96 was, in case my instincts were wrong. He looked at me as if I was stupid and said, "How should I know?"

But he's good for a ball-by-ball analysis of each cricketer's performance in the current test series, if anyone has a spare three hours.

My 5.8 yo toldme 90+90 and 6+6 but not 96+96

Aren't they fascinating (children that is!). They are all so different.

A friend's DS at age 7 was spelling any word thrown at her and I asked "spell Supercalifragil..............us!) and she did!!!! Broke it down and worked it all out. As you can tell I am not sure!

We have friends who were worried that their DS was dyslexic and my DH relied that he reckoned that he was number dylsexic if there is such a thing. Funny thing is he is an accountant with a maths degree!!!!!!!!

My DS is 4 and his fave number is eleventeen!

I think you can be either number or letter dyslexic, it was mentioned to me when my ds couldnt recognise his letters but was ok with numbers.

Nice fave number mm. My dd's fave is twenty-ten. She's nearly 5. I haven't asked her the sum but I'm pretty sure she wouldn't be able to do it. But then, she hasn't started in reception yet so maybe she will know it soon???