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TOTALLY TRUE
Four-Year-Old Prodigy Stumps Maths Teacher
And is told she has asked a stupid question. Can you answer it?
I was only four when I decided I liked letters better than numbers.
There were only 26 letters of the alphabet to learn, so I could already read when I went to my first Maths lesson. I asked the teacher how many numbers there were, and she said they were infinite.
So we had a bit of a chat about what infinite meant, and I decided that sounded like too many. And a lot more than 26.
Numbers don’t have boundaries like letters do. You can form words out of the 26 letters, but there are limits because you aren’t allowed to invent new alphabet epistles. We need boundaries like that to keep us safe. This is how the Government protects us.
Most words have already been invented, and you can find them in a book called a dictionary.
Numbers are trickier. People are always discovering new ones.
I told the teachers I didn’t want to learn numbers, but they still made me go to the Maths class, and I think they wish they hadn’t.
Has anyone ever told you there is no such thing as a stupid question? They are lying. I was often told I was asking stupid questions.
