Venkat thinks he is good at teaching. Friends and family conceded such comments many a times. The list below is set of questions from his daughter for which he had plumbed.
1. In her kindergarten when teacher was teaching numbers till 100…
Daughter: “Papa! There are numbers till Hundred only”
Papa: “No, there are infinite numbers. Actually we cannot count”
Daughter: “No! Teacher taught till Hundred only and numbers are limited till Hundred, like one, two, three….”
Papa: “Not at all. After hundred it is hundred and one, hundred and two….”
Daughter: “See! You are repeating after hundred”
Papa: “hmm. Yeah. But…. There is Thousand, two thousand…”
Daughter: “they are actually ten hundred, twenty hundred only… ten hundred and one, ten hundred and two…”
2. In her 3rd standard while learning a lesson on Time:
Daughter: “Why there are only 12 numbers in a clock for a 24 hour day? Why not a clock with 24 numbers?”
Papa: “A day of 24 hours is divided in to two equal half’s. One half for the day and other for the night.”
Daughter: “when the day starts and night starts then?”
Papa: “Day starts around 5:00 AM and night starts at 9:00 PM”
Daughter: “then, why isn’t the start time is 5:00 AM instead of 00:00 AM. A new day starts at 00:00 which is actually midnight and at 12:00PM there is hot day light”
Papa: “hmmmm”
Daughter: “why don’t we have a 6 hour clock starting at current 5:00 AM but mentioned as 00:00.Then it will be morning till 6:00, Evening till 12:00, night till 18:00, late night till 24:00″
3. In her 4th standard, the day after her Mathematics annual examination, I was reviewing her answers and found a mistake. While dividing a 5 digit number with a 2 digit number, after two levels of correct subtraction, she chose a lesser multiple and the remainder came out to be bigger than the divisor. I couldn’t answer as why the remainder cannot be greater than divisor. Couldn’t get a practical example to prove.
