I thought "dozen" was a gigantic number, much bigger than a thousand or a million. My teacher got very confused when I told her that there must be a dozen atoms on the eraser of my pencil if there were millions on the tip.
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when your pencil ran out of eraser that if you sharpened it it would grow a new eraser— Nikkie
- As a kid I used to believe that when you sharpened your pencil, the eraser on the pencil grew.Anon
- I thought to count to one thousand you did 1-100, then 100-199, then came 1,000.— Anon!
- I thought the white circles you see when looking at a bright window were what atoms of air look like.— H.
- i was told that if you got stabbed with a pencil (by yourself or others) you would get lead poisoning.— waiting to die
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine