100% Mindblown
I was having a conversation the other day with my girl about a French word, and decided to look it up because, as I told her, I wasn't totally sure I had the right word. I was, I said, about 90 % sure, but I wanted to check.
She replied that she was about 51% sure.
"Not very sure," I said. "That's only about halfway sure."
"I know." she responded. "One more than half."
She's seven. I stopped. I had figured she was pulling a random number out of the air that sounded good. "Um, how did you know that was halfway?" I had to ask.
She explained, very logically, that 50 was half of 100, and 51 was one more, so one more than half. Whaaaa?
I'm totally gobsmacked. I'm certain she has not been introduced to the concept of percentage yet in grade 1, nor does she speak Latin to know that it means for each hundred, so... I kept puzzling about where she got that piece of knowledge and couldn't come up with anything other than leaps of logic that I would not expect in a kid who is smart and math-savvy, but not any kind of mind-blowing savant.
This morning I asked her how she knew that percent meant out of a hundred. She told me that she just knew, and then added that she read cereal boxes. Again, what? I pulled one out of the cupboard so she could show me what she was talking about. She showed me the column of percentages of recommended daily allowances for various vitamins and nutrients. She pointed out the % symbol.
I've always believed you can learn nearly anything by reading, but I had to scrape my jaw off the floor after that one.
Kids. You never know what their going to pull out of their sleeve next, do you?!
posted by kittenpie @ 9:01 AM
4 Comments:
Ha! I wonder where KayTar gets things all the time! Such smart kids.
Nothing would surprise me with Pumpkinpie. She's one smart cookie!
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