Me, calling from the kitchen: Hey! How do you all want your sandwiches cut?
5-year-old: The Great Pyramids, please!
8-year-old: Triangles…but big, like yesterday.
RegularDad: Two trapezoids and a rhombus!
8-year-old: Da-ad!
RegularDad: Just kidding. I’ll have an ellipse with an eccentricity of 0.8.
5-year-old: Da-ad!
8-year-old: Mom! Dad’s making up words again!
RegularDad: Am not! You know what an oval is, right? An oval is an ellipse. And an ellipse is a circle with an eccentricity that’s equal to zero.
8-year-old: Well…okay. But Mom won’t cut sandwiches into circles, you know. She says it’s a waste.
RegularDad: Oh, well. Okay. Gimmee a dozen rectangles, then.
Me: Rectangles it is…wait–what??? You can’t have 12 rectangles. I’m just gonna cut this thing in half for you, okay? And sweetie (glancing at my 8-year-old), those were real words. When you’re in high school in a few years and doing higher math, those words will make sense.
8-year-old: Yeah, but you still won’t be able to eat them for lunch.
I LOVE IT! And, well if you can’t eat it for lunch who needs it!!
Totally.
Now that’s some lunchtime home schooling for ya!