#52 Denied
This was while working with nine-year-old kids. We’re doing number problems and a kid is having trouble with a sum. The sum is “You have forty sweets. You give half your sweets to your friend. How many sweets do you have now.” I grab forty counters, and say to the kid “Here are forty sweets. If you give me half, how many will you have left?”
Kid turns to me. His deadpan reply was unbelievable: “I can’t give you the sweets. You aren’t my friend.”
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