Friday, March 7, 2008

Amazing Math Facts

Suddenly Wuggie Norple is all about numbers.

Last night he asked,
"What's a million minus a trillion"

I said:
"that's going to be a negative number"
He says
"Wow"
"Would you like me to get out a pencil and paper and show you?"

He looked downright excited at the prospect.
After we clarified that we meant trillion as defined in American parlance,
I showed him how
1,000,000,000,000
-1,000,000
__________________
999,999,000,000

He says,
"No, one million minus a trillion"

Sorry Wuggie

1,000,000
-1,000,000,000,000
__________________
-999,999,000,000

We practiced saying the answer out loud.

Then he runs off to the living room
"Dada, do you want to know an AMAZING math fact?"

2 comments:

lou jones said...

hey wuggie, what's your favorite number? mine is 12.

Ginger Root said...

How about 10 and 20?
love,
Wuggie