Prime Numbers - 3years 9months old

Zo Ee at 3years 9months old. (25th January 2012)

For the past 2 weeks, Zo Ee is obsessed with math again; she's been asking loads of math questions and is interested in negative numbers; doing negative subtraction and simple division and money. Today, she showed me 5 and 6 coloured pencils in each hands while telling me, 5 + 6 = 11. Then she handed me those 5 pencils while telling me 5 is a primary number and then handed me 6 pencils while telling me 6 is a secondary number. Ok...I don't think there is any primary number or secondary number. What sheis really trying to tell me is primary = prime numbers and secondary numbers = composite numbers. She is linking from the colour concept ; primary and secondary colours. You mixed two primary colours to get a secondary colour. So the same concept applies to numbers.

Moby - 3years 9months old.

Zo Ee at 3years 9months old. (24th January 2012)

As usual, Zo Ee' is keen on cutting and she had wanted to cut her new toy box. I allowed it since she wouldn't need it anymore. An hour later, she showed me the above Moby (from her memory) which she had cut and arranged on the writing table. Although I know that she is obsessed with Moby ( a robot from brainpop website) but her details work really surprised me. I gave her the idea to glue it onto a paper so that we could file it up.

More conversation-3years 8months old

Zo Ee at 3years 8months old. (31st January 2011)

Zo Ee: Dad, how was your visit to the dentist yesterday? What did the dentist say?

When I tried to explain to her as DH was driving....immediately Zo Ee chimed in.

Zo Ee: Mum. Please say nothing. I'm asking Daddy. I want to hear from Daddy. Daddy please tell me about it. So, What did the dentist say? Are you alright now?

Dh:....explained.........

Zo Ee: Dad you should take good care of your tooth.

Grrr.... I wondered do other 3 years old talk like this too.