Darwin likes Mozart

[enokignome]

I'm always tinkering at the piano, playing a bunch of different stuff, largely Bach, or Romantic stuff, or Ravel.  Darwin will hum along with the ones he knows.  Today I picked up a Mozart piece I played for my grade 9 exam 20 years ago.  There was a lot of noise in the room, but Darwin announced that he liked this music pretty much right away when

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[green_eyed_view]

That's pretty cool. Also I love the title "Darwin like Mozart" :P

[wonderlust4]

Future math genius?

[enokignome]

I don't know about genius, but he does enjoy math. He doesn't like the bother of working out his addition sums, but the ones that he's memorized, he works out patterns with. He's figured out how to add multiples of ten, which is not bad for a kid in J/K. And he seems to get concepts like multiplication without any trouble, but again, he needs to memorize the tables.

[abluecanary]

Finding the patterns is what higher math is all about, though! We all need to memorize the tables to a certain extent (most basic multiplications are things I just 'know' and not one's I work out via mental arithmetic) but I'm pretty sure that gaps between the kids who do seek out patterns and short-cuts and the kids who work solely from memorization becomes pretty distinct as the years go on. It's definitely a sign that he actually understands the relationships between numbers and such. :)