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I was quite proud as a 6th grader to have taught my 1st grade sister about fractions and negative numbers when she was barely learning addition and subtraction in school. By two years later I was teaching her beginning algebra.

MJ. Smith said:

Rosie, you're as bad as my brother who gave me a calculus book for Christmas when I was 10 and taught me al sorts of tricks to drive my teachers nuts.

Yup, it was fun driving my sister's teachers nuts vicariously. She would innocently ask them (knowing the answer full well), "What happens if you subtract 2 minus 3?" The teacher would say "you can't do that!" My sister would assert, "Yes you can, you get a negative number." I would get to hear the juicy stories when she got home, but I would have loved to have seen the embarrassed look on her teacher's face. We'd long given up playing classroom with the chalkboard in the basement by the time I learned about imaginary numbers (e.g., the square root of -1). Now that would have been fun! [:)]

Sadly, she never kept up the enjoyment of math. She was basically just acting like a performing monkey doing tricks to please me. But she went her own way and went into psychology, viola performance, and ultimately speech therapy. I'm happy for her. One math nerd in the family is already one too many.