In first grade, I distinctively remember the teacher saying 'We're going to learn about odd and even numbers... 7 is odd' some kid near me asked -to anyone listening- why 7 was odd. I answered 'of course 7 is odd, look at it.' I had the idea of odd and even numbers, but I thought the odd ones were the weird looking ones.
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that numbers had gender, that the odd numbers were boys and even numbers were girls. — Evelyn
- I used to be terrified of the numbers 18 and 19. I think I thought that when you turned 18 or 19, you die.— Emmy
- This may sound absurd but I thought the numbers next to the Bible versus said what time the person said it at!— Biomeka
- Numbers went up to 100 then restarted at zero.Anon
- When a "mean girl" in early grade school asked me if I was a virgin I answered "no I am catholic."— Hilary
- The highest of all numbers was "a finnety."— Becky