Matilda put up her hand she was the only one
miss honey looked carefully at the small girl with the dark hair and the round serious face wonderful she said please stand up and show us
Matilda stood up and said two twos are four two threes are six... And when she got to two tweleves are twenty-four she went straight on with Two thirteens are twenty-six two fourteens are twenty-gight...
stop "how far can you go "
I don't really know
Miss honey thought for a second or two Then she said Can you tell me what two twenty-eights are
fifty-six
what about something much more difficult said the teacher Something like four hundred and eighty-seven multiplied by two