Driving my 5 yr old chip of the block home today she chirped up and asked if everyone in Gotham City moved house how many removal vans it would take to do it. Now part of me is happy she is applying her tiny Nick Jr obsessed mind to constructing mathematical puzzles. The other part of me is disturbed that she seems to have inherited from me a need to worry about and consider things that have no bearing on anybody, let alone a five yr old. So it’ll come as no surprise that I instinctively blurted out
“On the same day?”
“Yes, dad. 500. 500 dad, that’s how many lorries you’d need for movin’.”
“Weeeeell, 300,000 people, hmmmm, that’d be roughly 75,000 households, maybe 100,000, one lorry per household, I think it might need about……”
“560 dad.”
I love it when the wee ones ask us rhetorical mathmatical questions.
I never get them right.
awh cute head melting questions…….I’m up to 45 words btw….
So did you agree with her? Or did you try to explain? I love a childs mind.
Hope you are having a good day.
Leigh, I agreed, of course.