Back when my boys were young and riding in the car seat behind me, we did math.
The deer in the field eat 3 apples a day. How many apples do two deer eat in 3 days.
Later on, buck deer eat four apples per day and does eat two.
Later on the math got more complicated, but it always involved deer, apples, days, weeks, months and the occasional random wolf that would kill a deer on the 12th day of the month.
Both of my boys are pretty good with math.
There are 12 deer in the field.
7 of the deer does.
Buck deer eat four apples per day.
Doe deer eat two apples per day.
A mean wolf kills a doe deer on Tuesday morning before her breakfast.
How many apples do the deer eat in a 7-Day week?
My youngest son was doing this in his head in second grade. It might have taken him 10 minutes to think out the answer, but back then he always got it right.
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He is 15 now and going through "Dad's Driving School".
Changing a flat tire at night without lights in a thunderstorm is part of the Core curriculum.
My oldest son is 25. He has never had an accident. He has never had a ticket. He checks his tire pressure and his tires for even wear every week. To quote my oldest son "Fugh Dad's Driving School."
