K and D had unfolded a long pad of the old-type computer paper- the kind that has all the sheets connected--on the floor from the front windows all the way into the dining room. They counted the sheets--there were 31. After several minutes of the kids walking on the paper, the sheets became separated in a couple of places. I asked the kids if they thought there were still 31 sheets, now that they weren't all attached together. They weren't sure, so we decided to count them again; since there were now 3 separate lines of paper, each of us would count one set and then we'd add them up.
K's set had 17; D's had 12, and mine had 2. K started adding the numbers, but he soon ran out of fingers.
What to do? No problem: he asked D, "Can I use your fingers?" D readily agreed.
Epilogue: since even with all of our fingers we didn't have enough, we resorted to using the calculator.
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