In Short Sentences
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On Sunday, there was still August in our town. Well, even today is only the first day of September, but now we are not talking about today. So, last Sunday, My Baby Tiger and me have changed our summer blankets for winter ones! And Andrey brought and turned on two radiators by his own decision. I couldn't believe when I heard it! It's me, your Tiger, who is always cold at this place ahead of all others...
Well, now it's not only me anymore. Last Sunday's night Andrey had left a peach pit on a plate, and what do you think I found after?! Just one unfortunate midge! One, only poor one! Previously, they were coming in huge clouds, but now it looks as they are all frozen ...
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Since our Tiger Cub likes math, I found on the Internet a pretty good site with exercises, similar to what they study at school.
However, one of the problems was formulated a little differently than they used to see it at school. Our Tiger Cub had an idea (and a very good one, it should be noted! :), but at this stage I thought it is still easier (and better) to approach it as they did at school. Indeed, I explained to my daughter how it's possible to implement her idea, and then how to "translate" the given problem (as it was) into the language of her school.
Once upon the time I was a student of Mechinah at the Technion, and one of the teachers gave us two problems as a little exam. The first exercise talked about a small ball inscribed in a quarter of a large hemisphere with a radius R, there we should find the radius of the small ball. In the second problem, 8 identical small balls were inscribed in a large ball with radius R, and we had to calculate the volume of the small one.
'Well, it's indeed one problem instead of two!', your Tiger said to herself cheerfully, taking the radius found at the first exercise for the second one just to put it into the known formula.
When the teacher returned our checked exams back, my grade was unexpectedly low. Not because I made some mistakes - there were none of it!
For being "too smart" and not (re)searching for the same radius once more!
However, the History likes to repeat herself, or to close the circle, i.e. it's sometimes almost the same.
Several years after this story I was going to hear another tale from my acquaintance about a math exam of her daughter. The girl had got an exam of 4 problem, in one of which she received zero. Yes, the poor girl was too smart, hence she could not repeat the solution of perimeter problem, imitating the previous exercise with areas...
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Several days ago we with Andrey were discussing one book, when he suddenly asked me if I was sure that it was a children's one. I remembered at once another book of a Latvian writer M. Klyave.
In my opinion, this book is the truest book that fits this description - "the book for all family and for all ages".
Children can enjoy adventures of animals in a summer village, when adults can meet their acquaintances, even, maybe, without enjoying it at all. On the other side, we, adults, can study to menage how to deal and go through different situations. If we are able or/and allowed.
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In general, I feel myself more and more like a CatDog (or THE CatDog). Well, I have never watch this creature personally, but you can meet everyone and everything on the figure skating forum, where I still go sometimes.
However, I suddenly remembered how I know about Kermit the Frog. From the novel "Detective" by Arthur Hailey.