math

This week, Logan brought home from school a glossy, full color certificate.  He earned the highest grade in math class on the recent unit test!   What a confirmation of his new attitude toward academics.  About a week ago, he ran out of credit with the school cafeteria.  He and I studied the district calendar and counted the school days in December.  I wrote out an equation to multiply by the price of a school lunch.  He snatched the pen from my hand and calculated it himself, handing it back so I could write the check.  Later that night, he showed me his latest Lego creation: a complex spacecraft with geometric wings and escape pods.  “You know what kind of person is good at math and made Lego things like this when he was thirteen?” I ask him.  “Engineer?”  Logan replies.   I nod, knowing that career path would never have seemed possible to the kid he used to be.