My daughter is smart

And in some cases, smarter than I.

At dinner tonight, while discussing how important math is, she said “Yes – I know.  I do a lot of math.  Do YOU even know about AVERAGES?”  I laughed.  I’m in the programming business.  I know all ABOUT averages.  She proceeds to write out a list of 10 numbers, and tells me to give her the mean, median and mode of them.

SHIT.

I know what those mean to SOME degree, but don’t remember which is WHICH.  She is now very happy.  She INSISTS that I figure it out.  I fumble through, and with help from her and Pam both, I finally get it.  Sheesh.

Later she is doing her homework, and she asks what a declarative sentence is.  I tell her (I get this one right) and watch her write it down on a sample sentence.  Unfortunately, she spells it declarative.  I correct her by saying it’s spelled declaritive – with an I.  Absolutely WRONG of course, which she looks up and finds INSTANTLY.  I leave the room.

-sigh- (But I still love her so much)