Creativity Magazine
The moment teacher said if A= 4 and B=5,then..streams of thoughts in all colours and of weird shapes started dancing in her mindA is 4 what happened to 1,2 and 3where are they now,how are they,why would someone not count from the beginning?what if a dragon ate all three of themor mama bird thought they were worms and fed them to her kidsoh no!what will the world of math do without 1,2 and 3?it would be a disaster and next year they will have another lesson in history about the three numbers that once were.. ouch !what if they had been kidnapped last night by an evil king of faraway landwhat if they are waiting for help in a geography infested dungeonwe know what geography can do to numbers don’t we…sent in a complex latitude longitude combinations never to be found againbut what if they ran away fed up with mathwhat if they are hiding in a tree houseor under a rockGod help if they started playing too close to a stream and then slipped in one of themoh no 1,2,and 3 would be in an ocean by nowmay be chased by a shark or a blow fish trying to get away sucked in a lot of water and they are now in its stomach..i have to help them,i must i mustwho is calling out my name she thought the voice calling her name was near nowshe came back to this world and saw her teacher was looking at her yes Ma’am she stood up in hurry and asked if a=4 and b= 5 then what is…but Ma’am are you not worried about whatthe missing 1 ,2 and 3they have been dangerthey have been missing from the blackboardand no one knows their whereabouts !