Thursday, December 2, 2010

+ vs. -

a conversation I had while helping a six year old little boy do his homework:
M: "Have you been practicing your subtraction? Do you have any questions before you start?"
S: "Really, I just like addition better than subtraction."
M: "That's ok, but why is that?"
S: "Well when it's like eating cookies and doing addition, you get to eat more. But when you subtract them, you have less cookies."
M: "Totally understandable."

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