The words of a friend. My wife and I decided to give our daughter to the mat. School in Petrograd. It was there before, not exactly Matt. School, but mathematics taught not bad. I took my daughter to an interview, and she was 6 years old. The questions were easy, she answered everything correctly. Then the teacher asked her the last question:

Imagine you have an apple, with branches of apples on it. On one branch 7 apples, on the other - 8, on the third 9. How many apples in an apple?

The girl, without thinking, says, is 24.

The teacher wondered how she thought.

- Well, I took one apple from the third branch, weighed on the first, and three times eight will be 24.

This interview ended.



The teacher takes me to the side and begins, - your child is of course weak, maybe our school will not suit her, but... and herself, rubbing her fingers reflexively, as if she was already counting the money. I understood what she wanted, and, confidently looking in her eyes, I said:

In fact, she has just developed Gauss’s method of finding the sum of a series. So you’re right, maybe your school doesn’t fit her.



My daughter, by the way, was taken. Maybe I’m going to complain.