When I was 6 I thought my maths teacher was stupid because she wrote the plus sign the wrong way round.
It took me a while to grasp multiplication.
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- I thought for the longest time that a No Standing traffic sign meant no person should stand near that sign.— Shannon
- When I was younger, I believed that times tables in maths were kids sitting at tables staring at clocks!Anon
- I didn't quite grasp the concept of time zones, and thought that Chinese kids went to school at night.— Giselle
- for the longest time every i used to think that Prince's "Raspberry Barret" said "round merry go round"— lin
- I legitmately thought that my mom wouldnt be able to read my diary if I wrote it pig latin!— Ashley
- I thought that the women who drove the bookmobile actually wrote all of the books on the shelves.— Dan