My 5 year old is great at adding and subtracting. No, he's not perfect, but he is really good at it. Yesterday in the car he mentioned something about negative one (-1). So I then asked him what Zero minus three is. "Negative three," he said.
Okay, that was easy.
I then asked what Negative three minus four was.
"Negative seven," he said.
Um. How did he know that?? I've since asked him several questions with adding and subtracting negative numbers and he has gotten them all correct. Well, all except for one. The one question I asked in front of Grandma to show him off. All of a sudden, he couldn't answer, ha ha.
But really. I don't even think they talk about negative numbers until 4th or 5th grade and then adding and subtracting is like 6th grade.
My 5 year old, a math whiz? Maybe. Maybe not. Either way, very interesting.
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Wow!!!!! And I thought Hopers was amazing for being able to add regular numbers already :)
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