Until I was four or five, I always thought that since 1+1=2, 2+2 must equal 3. I insisted I was right until I finally learned to add properly and had a lot of arguments with my dad about this, who tried to explain it without laughing. I now am in 7th grade honors math!!!
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that 7 times 12 was equal to 83 or 84, depending on the math problem.— Eric Swensen
- I learned in the first grade that the Sun was a star just like all the other stars, only it was MUCH bigger.— Geoff
- I thought that exclamation marks were actually "explanation marks", since they explain how you pronounce it.— superoid
- A[n] nth grade teacher only had to finish the nth grade when he or she was in school.— MD Caruso
- I used to think that the laugh track on sitcoms were the camera men, directors, other actors, ect. laughing.Anon
- Up until the 5th grade, I thought that all Egyptians were extinct. — Amy x