When my mom tried to explain "times tables" in math, I couldn't understand what an actual table had to do with anything. Math went downhill from there!
A childhood belief about family
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
- When I was younger, I believed that times tables in maths were kids sitting at tables staring at clocks!Anon
- I used to think that boysenberry was poisonberry and couldn't understand whay anyone would want to eat it.Anon
- I could NOT understand why, if a pen worked on paper, it couldn't also write in thin air.— Can you guess what it is yet?
- When I was little, I couldn't understand why people called me a tomBOY, instead of a tomGIRL.— Amanda
- Mom couldn't understand why at dinner time I wanted Chicken Pox.— Kristin