necessary math knowledge - LOTR

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 14656

Indigo (who had some strange hobbies growing up) wrote:

> Still, numerology, as I recall, does tend to involve a bit of basic 
> math because you have to know how to add and subtract, mutiply and 
> divide.
> 

I'm with Steve:  this is the kind of knowledge a child will easily 
know well before 11 through homeschooling.  I would add (unschooler to 
the last) that it wouldn't take formal homeschooling, either.  A child 
of 6 can easily learn arithmetic (meaning add, subtract, multiply, 
divide).  Ditto with reading and writing--I could do both before I 
started formal education (well, printing anyway), which is not at all 
unusual.

I just wonder about literature, nonmagical history, science (which is 
true and interesting even if you can circumvent physics with magic!), 
etc. . . . don't wizarding kids ever want or need to learn them?

Betty, great LOTR question--see OT-chatter for my thoughts (in a few 
hours--gotta run some errands).

Amy Z

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