Math is good, right? Yeah!
- Purvi Vora
- Jul 14
- 1 min read
Z's workbooks look...chaotic.
He doodles everywhere, refuses to erase (preferring to cancel wrong answers or write over them) and is generally not very neat.
In math particularly, with the added cognitive load of following multiple steps (even with great scaffolding), Z often "loses interest" after doing a couple of problems. Right from grade 1, he had a completely different way of solving problems in his head and refused to draw or write the steps if he already knew what the answer was.
Now, at age 9, his math workbooks give us a glimpse into how his mind works. It may look untidy to you and me, but it seems to make sense to him and keeps his attention and engagement on the page.
I was persoanlly fascinated by his creativity.
This is incredible ! Do you kow Rabindranath Tagore started doodling inkblots on his writing and that later turned into world art? His perception of a visual is transcendental, he refuses to put an image into a contextual box. That is extemely rare... as counteracting conditioning, both conscious and subliminal, is something that takes immense effort at this age. We cannot, must not allow him to loose this innate capacity to diverge from typical, fixed, learned and intentionally transmitted associations. He "sees" what we don't... this is the seed of genius.