The Really Important Questions

I gave Drew his math page yesterday (don't worry - this isn't another obnoxious mother moment!), on which he was asked to write an addition word problem, called a "some, some more story" by Saxon. Drew started on it without hesitation, and he actually wrote most of it himself, only dictating the last few words, which he delivered with the indicated emphasis - "There were 3 clones [presumably of the Star Wars variety]. Then 5 more came out of nowhere." The next part asked him to write a question for the story. Of course, Saxon meant something like "How many clones are there now?" But Drew looked up and said in dramatic tones with innocent seriousness, "How did clones appear out of nowhere?"

I started to say that's not exactly what the math page was looking for, but we sure did write that question down!