a post that is definitely about math

I went to the big library today and got graphic novels, juvenile poetry, science fiction, and a couple or three math books.

As soon* as he got home from school, the Scientist slipped The Manga Guide to Calculus from the bottom of the stack. He hid it inside a Dororo and stuck his nose in it.

I approached to offered him the graphic novel Mouse Guard, mostly because I was excited about it. He looked at me threateningly and hissed, "You're not going to take the Calculus away from me."

As the children grow in to an interest in mathematics, the fine differences between RightStart, Miquon and Singapore fade in my mind. Calculus and statistics are different. RS Level A and Singapore Worktext 1B aren't so much.

*As soon as the Scientist got home from school he said, "I finished it!" and slapped Dororo Volume One on the table. Then he asked where Dororo Volume Two had gone. I explained that earlier this morning the Storyteller said everyone in the house who was interested had finished reading all the Dororos we had checked out. This led to my taking Volume Two & Volume Three back to the library. I did not know Scientist had brought Dororo Volume One to school intending to read it all day; I believed one of the boys had returned it to the library already. Upon hearing my tale of the premature return of the books, Scientist sighed heavily, turned right around to go back out the door, and went down the block to the library to explain. He returned triumphantly a few minutes later, but then noticed that I had checked out seven hundred and sixty-two books that looked interesting during my own earlier trip to a different branch library. Our story more accurately begins there. But if I had put this paragraph up there in place of "as soon as he got home from school," this blog post would have seemed like it was about our family's weird obsession with the library, an obsession which leads us to visit more than one branch in one day independently of each other and multiple times. That would have been misleading because in fact this post was about my obsession with math curricula having been replaced by my childrens' interest in mathematics.