Girls Like Math

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I met a five year old girl who had the Pythagorean theorem memorized. Her two year old sister could do simple addition and subtraction. How was this possible?
Look around their house.

The five year old's room is decorated on the walls with mathmatical equations. There are labels on everything in the living room so the girls learn words and how to spell them.

What kind of crazy fanatical parents are these? Normal, loving people who are just planting the seeds of learning early. They are Marvcus Patton, former Redskins Linebacker, and his wife Ina, a psychologist.

"If we teach them that math is fun, then they can run circles around the boys, even on the football field, it doesn't matter," says Ina.

Ina spends a lot of time doing art with the girls. She painted a picture of two stick-figure girls at a chalkboard doing math problems to hang in Bobbi's bedroom. Marvcus looked at it and thought it would make a nice t-shirt idea.

Now, it's blossomed into an online business, GirlsLikeMath.com. She's made 16 different designs for t-shirts and they are selling. Marvcus is writing children's books for each of the designs.

Very cool. Marvcus has a great 'ROAR' when he reads the one about the math monster! I just wish I could get him to read it like to my kids!

Here's a link to their site:

girlslikemath.com