Math and Balls

Violet has been practicing math, so I was quizzing her at bedtime.

"What's 4 plus 3?" I asked. Without pause she said, "Seven."

"What's 5 plus 4?" I asked. Instantly, she said, "Nine."

After several more, I said, "Wow, Violet, you're getting much faster on these things. Is that all of the practice that you've doing on that math app?"

"No, it's all that work in school doing these number bonds." She looked over to her side table. "Hand me that paper, and that pencil, Dad."

I handed them over and Violet started sketching. "It's like this daddy." She sketched a group of two little circles and another group of three little circles. She pointed to the two circles and said, "Look here, Dad. Jill has two balls."

She looks up from the paper to me and said, "You know, play balls, not like, you know, a man's balls."