4 year old calls 911 for math help
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Stumble ThisJay Leno plays a recording of a 4 year old who calls 911 because he needs help. He needs help with his math.
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"Four"
"FOUR?"
I was kind of surprised too. I dont think we started subtraction until first grade. Damn overachievers!
lol if his mom gets back one day to find the TV is gone and he's hiding under his bed crying
knowing women, mom will be like "WHY DIDN'T YOU CALL THE POLICE???????"
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here's a link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRtswxRiHqk
This could just as likely be real. If it is, it's not the kid's fault that his parents didn't tell him their cellphone number as well. ( I knew my home phone by the time I was five. )
The child's mind doesn't work like an adult one, kk? Children and adults alike are diverse in all ways: height, hair color, race, development, intelligence, maturity, on and on. Stop sticking everything in a box, you're just making yourself miserable.
>> ^thepinky:
Totally fake, although I wish it weren't. Kids don't do subtraction at 4 years old. And if they do, they wouldn't be left alone by their parents to do it. And if they had the kind of parent who taught their kid to do subtraction at age 4, the parent wouldn't have told them to call somebody if they needed help with it.
2) Even if everyone in this particular class knew how to count before the school year started, the units in kindergarten (at least the ones in my school) didn't have math specific homework. The closest thing I can think of is when we went through the money unit, and we had to make change with what we had. I think we had worksheets with little cutouts of coins and we had to glue or tape on the page the combination that equaled X amount as homework.
3) The concept of subtraction is taught long, long after addition has been mastered. The concept of adding negative numbers, or "take-aways" is usually a difficult one for kids to grasp. No four-year-old, unless they are in an advanced after-school tutoring program or homeschooled, is going to be doing subtraction homework.
4) A cell phone number would've been relatively useless in this case, as there is obviously someone else in the house. The dispatcher says something about "listen to your mom," and the kid on the phone doesn't correct him. If you've ever babysat a four-year-old, you know they love to correct the slightest mistakes. If it wasn't his mother, I'm sure he would've let everyone know.
And there's no need to be condescending just because you disagree. No one's miserable for calling "fake" on a video. Jeez. Calm down.
>> ^karkarlee:
I could count, add and subtract a bit ( simple things, like 4+5 and 19-1 ) and was grasping reading and writing when I was four. I did it alone most of the time, because I myself wanted to. I would watch TV shows and learned from that.. I also knew to call 911 if something bad happened or someone was hurt or needed help badly.
This could just as likely be real. If it is, it's not the kid's fault that his parents didn't tell him their cellphone number as well. ( I knew my home phone by the time I was five. )
The child's mind doesn't work like an adult one, kk? Children and adults alike are diverse in all ways: height, hair color, race, development, intelligence, maturity, on and on. Stop sticking everything in a box, you're just making yourself miserable.