counting

When I was in preschool I thought that the number a hundred preceeded the number one hundred.

Andi

i thought number 8 was an orange flavoured yougurt

gringo

I used to believe that 6 take away any number you still had 6 left (Example 6-2=6). That theroy worked only on any number minus 0.

Nicole

When I was little I thought ten was the highest number in the world.

Anon

I used to believe that several and couple meant the same thing. (example: several things versus a couple of things) I was always confused why when I asked for a couple of things that I would be given only 2 every time. LOL!!!

Sharon

When I was little I didn't know that "a couple" meant two so when my teacher told me to pick out a couple pieces of candy I just grabbed a handful and hid it.

Hannah

When I was about 3 or 4 I used to count the days of the month as oneth, tooth, third, fourth, fifth...
I'm not sure how I got the third right.

Anon

For some reason I thought that the number 5 was evil. I also hated the color green. Whenever there was a green #5 on my math worksheets I would cross it out to punish it for being so bad!

darci

I don't know why, but when I was first learning to count it went like this : 1... 2... 3 ...4... 5 ...6 ...7... 8... 9... 10 ...11 ....12 ....30... 31... 32 ...33 .....

I can't remember why I thought you went from 12 to 30 but I counted like that for almost a year till my dad told me the correct way....

Marisa

When I was 5, I thought a calendar was called a counter

Trisha

For some reason, whenever I visualized myself being 6 years old, I visualized myself as an actual number 6! I believe I did this until I was around 8.

Anon

I used to think algebra was putting letters in place of numbers, and doing sums with them. So, for instance, A is 1, B is 2 and C is 3 and so on.

Anon

I used to think that as 'a few' rhymed with two, therefore it meant two. My brain didn't register that a couple of people weren't three of them.

anon

My mom and dad told me that numbers go up to infinity when i was 5 so when i was 12 after i got to the 1000's i'd go infanty the end and my classmates would say what about one million and i'd say who would make something as stupid as that up retard numbers only go up to infanty and my teacher says no they don't stop they go on to infinity and i would say that's what i said and he didn't believe me she said infanty isn't the end of the alphabet and i would say abviously i need to teach the class

I was completely hopeless

Around first grade when I was learning arithmetic I began to think of numbers as having these complex personalities and interactions. 2 was the funny one, 3 was kind of stupid, 5 was the wild & cool one, 7 was a stuck-up brat, 8 was shy & quiet, 9 was sophisticated, 1,4 & 6 were all mellow, easy to get along with types. Some numbers got along better than others. 7 was always huting the other number's feelings, especially 6 & 8. I used to feel sorry for 6 & 8 and wish they didn't have to be next to 7 all the time.

Annie

I also thought a hundred and one hundred were different numbers. I also thought that after 99 came a hundred and so on to a hundred 99 and then came one hundred. So with me, not only did numbers have genders, personalities and relationships, their was also another whole set of numbers.

Aerith

I used to believe that numbers only lasted to 1000. I also used to believe that after 100 or 1000, it would be 100, 200, 300, 400 etc. LOL!!!

LOL child

I believed as a kid that there were "Irish numerals" just like there were Roman numerals. And that the letters for the Irish numerals were S, H, N, and T. (instead of Roman numerals I, V, X, and L - those were the only ones I knew at the time - I learned C, D, and M later)

Spencer Griffin

When I was 4 I asked my mom what number came after 100. She said 10. Until 2nd grade, I would go "97, 98, 99, 100, 10, 11, 12.."

Anon

not mine, my kindergarten classmates's. i was always a VERY bright child (when i was 13 i found out from an actual iq test administered at a psychiatry place i was 99th percentile)and i always got very frustrated at my classmates. one day we learned to count above one hundred, and i was the only one who understood the pattern of 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, etc. everyone else thought you went right to 200 after 109, and it ended up it a big argument between the class and i. i just kept yelling over and over, "two hundred is just two ONE hundreds! you have to count all the way up to ANOTHER hundred, not to ten!"

chibi t