“Mom, I want to do some math”

What mother’s heart wouldn’t warm at that particular phrase?

Well, there are others more heart-warming, I guess, but I this was the one my “2+2 year-old” son handed me this morning.

So, after a long time away from the workbooks, we spent this cold, rainy day finishing up the K-1 Mind Building Math book together, followed by an hour or so of him working on a Power Mathematics workbook on his own.

It initially amazed me that he so loved the Professor B workbooks, since I can’t think of anything more unimaginative than a page full of equations, but I realized that, even when he was unable to read, he could still work entirely independently solely using the language of numbers. It must give him a great sense of accomplishment to go through pages and pages of a workbook without ever having to ask me what a word is or what it means.

He didn’t get the math-loving gene from me, but I love that he has it.

Tags: math, homeschool, homeschooling, mathematics, professor B

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