My Grandfather (1904) He had four classes of education, but his children were so motivated that two of them became candidates of sciences (philologists), and the third was my mother.

One day I, just in second grade, came to my grandfather for a visit, and in the evening when the work in the village was already done, he sat down to me and asked:

Which subject do you like the most at school?

and mathematics.

So, my granddaughter, you have this task. Three rubles in rubles, a ruble in fifths, a ruble and a fifth, three copies per copey and a copey.

I thought, I put the numbers on paper and gave a response.

"Young man, I see you know how to count, and once so, look, with these words, my grandfather got ten rubles out of his pocket and put it on the table, this ruble will be yours if you solve another task, or guess the answer.



- I decide, of course, I have only five in mathematics at school and I know the entire table of multiplication.

Then listen to. A bunch of goats flew, and one goat met her, and the goat said, “Hello a hundred goats!” And the goats say to him, “We are not a hundred. If there were so many, and so many, and so many, and so many, and so many, and so many, and so many, and so many, then there would be a hundred of us.

I thought for a long time, a day I thought two thought, three - the task is not solved.

“No,” said the grandfather, “that means the money will wait until you solve the task.

At that time, for ten Soviet rubles, such a shet like me, could gather all my friends, get stuck in the store with candy, cookies, lemonade and everything that the soul wishes and cuddles not one day. Since then, mathematics has become for me, not an abstract boring subject, but a real way to enrich. I taught her that the next time, I would destroy my grandfather, and he asked me new and new tasks until I realized that there was no limit to perfection. I’ve never been able to make a red card.)



P.S As a result, I became a teacher of mathematics and worked in school for more than 25 years.