necessary math knowledge - LOTR

[Indigo]

No: HPFGUIDX 14659

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> 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?
> 

This is true.

I was reading at 2, and although I hate math, I knew the basics before 
Kindergarten.

I guess that's that, then. 

Indigo