My Father’s World (10)

It must be interesting for a teacher to watch a child learn his way through the world of numbers. It must be interesting for a teacher to watch a child learn his way through the world of numbers. At first our children know only the names of the numbers and use them as they see fit. It is not at all unusual to find a pair of three or four-year-olds picking dandelions out of the lawn. The one may hold in his pudgy little fist six or seven of them and say, "I got ten of 'em." The other replies,...