1 picture is to 1000 words as 1000 pictures is to _______

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

I’m always pleased when we get to incorporate math into our daily living- it becomes more like an intriguing puzzle, less like work.
Carter: Mom? What’s a thousand times a thousand?
Me: mmmm. Add up the zeros, right? So. . . a hundred times a thousand is a hundred thousand, so a thousand times a thousand [...]

by Amy Makice

Amy Makice is a social worker actively working on two other family-centered projects, Creative Family Resources and Parenting for Humanity. Amy has a weekly online show on BlogTalkRadio.

I’m always pleased when we get to incorporate math into our daily living- it becomes more like an intriguing puzzle, less like work.

Carter: Mom? What’s a thousand times a thousand?

Me: mmmm. Add up the zeros, right? So. . . a hundred times a thousand is a hundred thousand, so a thousand times a thousand is. . .

Carter: A thousand thousand?

Me: A million.

Carter: Ah. (nodding wisely) So a thousand pictures are worth a million words.

Which means my iphoto folder is worth 7,895,000 which means I finished nanowrimo after all.

One Comment

  1. Kevin Makice added these pithy words on December 4, 2007 | Permalink

    Man, that insight would have made NaNoWriMo much easier last month.

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