Our “artist in residence” takes great pleasure when his math worksheets tell him to draw out a word problem.

For most of us, if given a problem such as “Jimmy has an apple, Annie has an apple, how many apples do they have?” and then asked to draw it out, we’d come up with a picture of two apples with maybe a plus symbol between them.

Not so with our 5.5yo boy, who can take 10 minutes not simply to depict the math, but the entire scene:

After he drew the above, I asked him, “Where are the dimes?!!”

He simply pointed at the very small little rectangles (3 on “Weston’s” table, and 2 in his sister’s hand).

Hilarious.