Congrats on encouraging him to express how he is thinking so successfully!
I had a similarly cool moment once when buying bottles of water for a party - there were 4 crates of water that were 7 bottles 'wide' and 5 bottles 'deep' . I asked my DD who was 6 at the time, how many bottles there were in total . She replied 140 and I would have left it at that (pleased) but she then went on to explain that 140 was 4 x 35 (how I had expected her to arrive at the total), 7 x 20 and 5 x 28 - the fact that she appeared to be able to so trivially visualize the 'cube' and take slices in all 3 dimensions amazed me!
Last edited by madeinuk; 06/07/13 05:41 AM.
