Our youngest daughter was sitting doing some math homework the other night, and was experiencing some difficulty. She was trying to complete that pesky mathematical operation of subtraction. 10 - 5, 7 - 3, she was flying through, until she met up with 12 - 6. "How do I do that?" she asked. My wife and I told her that she should try to start at six, use her fingers, and count up to 12. Sitting there for a minute or two, she finally threw the paper on the floor in frustration, with a groan.
"I give up!" she said. "I can't do it!"
"You can't just give up!" we both told her. "You can do it!"
Our daughter, with a serious look on her face, told us "Oh no I can't! I DON'T HAVE TWELVE FINGERS!"
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