Freakish.
I gave A a language test last week. The average standard score for kids his age is 100. He got a 148. I’ve heard that scores on such language tests can be loosely aligned to IQ scores, but whatever. I just thought it was funny that he thought it was so much fun to do. Weird. He asked me if we could do it again just yesterday.
I do realize that this language test was just that - a test of his receptive and expressive skills. Much to D’s chagrin, we don’t have a cheap and easy way to assess his math skills (the cheap and easy way to assess language skills being that I’m a speech pathologist and can pretty much do the language thing in my sleep...plus I have access to any number of language tests every day...). Even much more to D’s chagrin, he is my child too, which means he runs a 50/50 chance of totally sucking at math. Case in point:
Tonight at dinner, A said, “Mommy, think of a number between....1...and...10.”
me: 4!
A: uhhhhhhhhhhhh...
me: Is my number bigger or smaller than the one you’re thinking of?
A: ummmmmm, smaller!
me: 6!
A: Smaller!
D: 7!
A: Smaller!
me: 9!
A: uhhhhhhhhhhh...
me: A, what number are you thinking of?
A: SIXTEEN!!
1 comment:
Congrats to your boy on the language test, and the fact that he's so psyched about learning. I totally feel for him math-wise. Your dinner table story, which I LOVED, reminded me of one of my own. When I was about 8 or 9, I had a constant mental block on the sum of 8 + 6. One night at dinner, I announced to my parents that I finally had it: 8 + 6 = (drumroll please) 13!!!!!!! My parents did not know whether to laugh or shake their heads, so they kind of did both, before gently correcting me for the umteenth time. ;-) Kids are so goofy. Miss you!
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