Fun with Numbers

Although Son can count to 50 (except that he often forgets what the number is that comes after 49, and sometimes tries again with 40), he's not so good with the conceptual numbers thing. Also, he has no scale in his mind for many things, no idea about relative size or units used to measure.

Recently, he's announced: "When Santa Claus comes, his bag will have so many presents in it, it will have to be 500 big."

And: "Look at me run. I'm almost as fast as Dash. But not quite. He's *really* fast. He can run even a hundred and thirty fast."

Today, while carrying his 90 cents of change (after purchasing 10 cents of candy with the first dollar bill he has literally ever "paid" as he puts it), he was asked, "Is that more or less money than you had when you had your dollar bill?" He promptly answered, "It's less." "How do you know?" "Because these are only small coins and that was a whole BIG bill." Apparently, the lesson about how the little dime is worth more than the bigger nickel hasn't been taught yet in our house.