Prime

Parker's class was doing odd and even numbers the other day so I thought he would be ready to hear about prime numbers. I starting talking about them and why they are called prime and then I starting saying numbers and asking him whether he thought they were prime. He immediately understood even numbers weren't prime, but go confused on 15 and 21. By the time we go to 25, he said, "Mom, any number that ends in a 5 is not prime right? Because those numbers are like the clock numbers!" Then he said, "Tell me more prime numbers." Each time I got bored with it, he would ask for more.

I also told him about the 'number places" like ones, tens, hundreds. This topic seems pointless to teach to a kids that already fully understands numbers and how to get to bigger number like 10,000 from smaller numbers like 100, but it's in all the workbooks, so I threw it out there. As I imagined, he quickly grasped this concept.

****As a side note, as a follow up to the post below about annoying things, I get annoyed when parents remark about the "cuteness" or smartness of their children. The most annoying are when they the parents think they said or did something way beyond their age. Obviously, I enjoy doing this tremendously. And anyway, I figure anyone still reading this blog, had they ever been annoyed at such things too, would have gotten over it at this point.