Whaiāipo left for work yesterday saying to the kids that if he got home early enough, they would do some more math if they wanted.

I made sure we had dinner on the table by the time whaiāipo arrived home, and once we'd let the meals settle, the kids asked dad if they should grab a pencil and paper...

The children learned about degrees first (eg a full circle is 360° and also used a full circle protractor to help demonstrate this).

Whaiāipo quizzed them on square roots and they got all of them correct. Whaiāipo tried to be cunning and asked tama 1 what the square root of 10,000 was. He got the shock of his life when tama 1 questionly responded, "100?"

Whaiāipo was impressed beyond belief!!!

Then they went back over circumference and volume. To aid his teaching, whaiāipo grabbed a couple of biscuit tins and a ruler. [He was going to use an ice-cream container but I pointed out the little ones would think that meant dessert... but as it was, tama 3 still took the biscuit tins to mean dessert and headed off to the cupboard to grab some bowls!!!](Tama 2 wasn't missing out on math. Whaiāipo assigned him some exercises and he busied himself to impress daddy too.)


After another 10-15 minutes, I needed to take tamāhine 2 and tama 3 to bed. I suggested everyone come upstairs so the littlies didn't get upset that they were going upstairs but everyone else was still downstairs. So, class continued in the boys bedroom. I think it's traditional to "read stories" to your children before bed, but not Romankids, we talk about math facts, lol.

Because I was getting tamāhine 2 and tama 3 off to sleep, I didn't have the opportunity to take a photo of the older kids with their dad.