My parents went and told everybody I could do math at the tender age of 4. It would go like this: "What's 12 minus 6 ?" Me: 6. "What's 4 divided by 2?`" Me: 2.
Later, I found out the hard way, that math wasn't just about repeating the last number you heard. Oh and for a while I thought 1+1 would be 11. Made perfect sense to me.
I still suck at 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 used to believe that the hard toe caps on rugby boots were made from giant ants found in the amazon!— eryll
- THat Cheesecake was actually made of cheese. I was 18 when I found out it wasn't!— R
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- When I was a kid I found it hard to say "Sebastian". I always pronounced it "Sebastican". — Dave, Lancashire
- I spent ages wondering what a bart ender was as a child without realising that it was actually bar tender.— Heather