Math brain

I've mentioned before that Aaron likes math.  He loves numbers.  This extends to an obsession with time, including clocks, timers and calendars.  He's known the days of the week and the months of the year for awhile now.  He's been able to read an analog clock since he was 3 1/2.  He can even convert 24h time to 12h time.

For a long time, he's been pointing out when the digital clock on the cable box shows a pattern.  At 1:41 or 3:23 or 7:47 he'll shout the time followed by "It's a pattern!"  (And then wait for me to acknowledge this all important fact.)

More recently, he pointed out when it was 6:36 that it was a pattern and a square.  I thought he meant that 636 was a square number, but he meant that 36 is 6 squared.  A few days ago, he pointed out that 5:25 and 1:01 were similar.  I said, what about 4:16?  He said, it's not a pattern. 

So he decided that times that represent a number and that numbered squared, like 4:16, are called ki-NAY-zures.  (I'm not sure on the spelling, but that's how he pronounced it.)  But times that represent a number and the number squared that are also patterns, like 6:36 and 5:25, are called CUL-i-nay-zures.

He also pointed out that 8:64 would be a ki-NAY-zure, but that it is really 9:04. 

I love how his mind works.  Now I just wish he didn't melt down every time his sister touched the calculator.  He's been squentially squaring numbers starting with 1 and he's into the 1000s now.  He doesn't like her to mess it up (since it remembers where he left off).