Here’s a cute anecdote that happened at work today. I’m an after-school teacher and today we were having fun with the kids.

So. I was working on a computer, trying to use this kids program, applying advanced geometry and making complex Christmas shapes like i usually do, when keegan (little adorable trouble maker) comes up to me.

He says “Do you have another paper of super math for me?” (last week i did this paper full of calculations on making the perfect star and a candy cane through units of movement and degrees.)
and I said

“No not today.” Well he looked sad, so I quickly added a nice “sorry buddy.”
He frowned and replied “oh okay… I really like math.”

So I stood up and started walking with him across to the legos.

“Really? What do you want to be when you grow up?”

“Uh… I don’t know… I like math though.”

So I asked “Do you want to be a mathematician?”

Keegan looks up to me, gets excited and shouts
“I wanna be a math magician!”