Sunday, February 25, 2007

九九

最近りりちゃんが九九を覚え始めた。まだ、3の行くらいまでしか覚えていないが、対角線上の1x1,2x2,3x3,4x4…9x9は覚えているようだ。意地悪して10x10はと聞いてみたら、100!と答えられたときは驚いた。10が10個だから、100でしょ!と言われて、さらにびっくり。僕が5歳の時はまだだし算も覚えていなかったような、、、。

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Riri is so clever, her ability of calculating 10x10=100 reminds me of Richard (Sy Yuk Tsan)'s younger son, who can count from 1 to 100 at the age of 3, but what made his father feel proud is that he can even derived 999 plus 1 is 1000!!! At that time, even Phoebe at the age of 6 didn't know the answer!!! That is why the westerner encourage parent to let children have a playful and creative life rather than to push them to memorize so called "knowledge", its worth to let them discover the world rather than we (as parent) teach them how to learn on our own way ....