D: I know what 100 + 100 is. Do YOU want to know what it is?
Me: Yes please!
D: It’s 200. What’s 166 + 166?
Me: 332.
D: Ah. I think I know ALL the numbers now!
D: We’ve got some homework to do – there’s a letter in my book bag.
Me: What’s the homework?
D: It’s literacy and maths. I don’t know what we have to do. Can you read the letter to me?
Me: You’re right – for literacy you’ve got to try and “write a simple sentence and join with ‘and’ or ‘but'” and for maths you’ve got to try and “know all the pairs of numbers that make 20 and the matching subtractions.”
D: Yes, like 5 and 5 and 5 and 5.
Me: That’s right – or 10 and…?
D: 10. Yeah – it’s homework. Does that mean I get the day off school?
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