how you know you're in love, by jane sartwell (7)
first you look at their eyes without them knowing, and figure out whether they're cute.
then you talk to them a little to see if they're nice.
then you ask them a really hard math question, and you take the problem to your teacher, and if the answers match, you know they're smart.
this is if you like them cute, nice, and smart.
then you hang out and you start getting a funny feeling in your heart!
jane's working on her new book frenemies, about her amazing love/hate relationship with eric, who is "kind of" cute, nice, and smart, until he turns ugly, nasty, and stupid!
sounds a wise woman.
but... you can be smart and not good at math, ya know.
math is a kinda specialized discipline. other disciplines require just as much smarts.
geo.
Posted by:GeoBen | May 16, 2008 at 10:47 PM
she has my vote!
Posted by:mr.fun | May 10, 2008 at 09:04 AM
actually, jane (like her dad) is unalterably opposed to mathematics, but impressed by its mystical strangeness. that's why she has the teacher for the answer!
Posted by:crispy | May 10, 2008 at 06:19 AM
Pretty sophisticated title (frenemies) for a seven year old. Keep encouraging her work as I know you will.
Posted by:Rik Little | May 09, 2008 at 07:57 PM
I have used this procedure myself, and it has worked for me. However, regarding the third test, the one for smartness, does Jane not yet know that "mathematics is a sort of necromancy or pagan religion. It has no basis in fact or in theory. It is concerned entirely with entities of which it has no clear conception."?
Posted by:Bernard | May 08, 2008 at 07:57 PM