Strategery

I’m not sure why, but Number 4 is a little obsessed with what school was like when I was kid.

Last week I answered a couple of her questions but cut her off when she asked if regular schools were invented back then or did I go to school in a one-room school house.

Ouch.

This morning the interrogation started again.

“Mom? What was school like when you were a kid?”

I told her it was basically the same.

That we had more free time.

That we got to do more fun stuff.

That we didn’t have computers or iPads yet.

“NO. I mean, did you only carry the one?”

I was cleaning up and looking for socks and trying to find a brush and a little distracted.

“MOM!”

“What?” I snapped.

“WHAT PROBLEM SOLVING STRATEGIES DID YOU HAVE BACK THEN???”

You have got to be kidding me.

“Did you have number lines? Did you draw pictures???

DID YOU EVEN HAVE PARTIAL SUMS???

HOW DID YOU ADD NUMBERS???”

I could have engaged, but I just didn’t have the energy.

“Since we went to a one-room schoolhouse, we were only allowed to have one problem solving strategy,” I said to her, “but somehow we just managed to get by.”

Wait until tomorrow.

That’s when I’ll tell her we didn’t have Google, either.

And then, for the grand finale, I’m gonna break out the typewriter, the correction tape, and all 32 volumes of Encyclopedia Britannica.

 

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